Mike-
Does your computer use ACPI or APM? The thing of stating "power down "
but not actually powering down sounds like the behavior of a Linux
system without functional ACPI installed on a computer which uses ACPI.
Lee
mike enriquez wrote:
>I boot into x-session.
>I just clicked on turn off computer in verbose mode. All processes were
>perform as [ok].
>The very last line on the verbose mode is "Power Down".
>I am assuming that I am to push the power button but this
>does not make sense to manually have to hit the power button
>in Linux. But what do I know?
>I will try the install process you suggested.
>Thanks
>Mike
>
>
>
>On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 20:59, Donn Shumway wrote:
>
>
>>Please describe what you mean by 'mandrake will not shutdown the
>>computer'. Describe he shutdown process. Are you booting into an
>>X-session or to the command line?
>>
>>2) Installing Firefox and Thunderbird is fairly easy. Start with
>>Firefox. Download the latest tar file from the Firefox site (version
>>1.01 just came out today and includes some significant bug fixes). The
>>file is named firefox-1.0.1.installer.tar.gz. If you are the only
>>user, and you want to partake of the internal updater, you can install
>>it into your Home directory (run the installer as your user, and
>>choose your /home/user directory to install to). If multiple users
>>will use it, install into /usr/local or /usr/share as the root user.
>>
>>copy the tar file to the root directory where you want to extract the
>>Firefox installer.
>>run the command 'tar -zxvf firefox-1.0.1.installer.tar.gz'
>>This will create a directory called 'firefox-installer' and extract
>>all the files into their proper directory structure. Once extracted,
>>and assuming you want to install into your Home directory, you can run
>>the firefox-installer with [assuming you extracted to /usr/local]:
>>/usr/local/firefox-installer/firefox-installer
>>
>>Follow the prompts and enter the destination [ex. /home/foo/firefox]
>>directory you want to install in, finish the install. When complete,
>>run Firefox with the command:
>>'/home/foo/firefox/firefox &' from a shell, or create a desktop Icon
>>to run it from.
>>
>>Thunderbird is similar, but (if I remember correctly, does not contain
>>an installer. You merely run it from the directory you extracted to.
>>
>>Let me know if you need more detail.
>>
>>
>>On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:28:59 -0700, mike enriquez
>><thegeek@e-pebblecreek.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a dual boot with winxp and mandrake.
>>>Issues:
>>>1. Mandrake will not shut down the computer. It did it once then it
>>>stopped shutting down.
>>>2. I tried to install thunderbird and firefox and got nowhere.
>>> I have downloaded both apps but I can't get pass the download to
>>>install. I am doing something wrong but I can't figure it out.
>>>3. I am taking a linux class at Gateway but the class is not at this
>>>point of installing apps and drivers.
>>>So I need a little kick start tomorrow.
>>>Thanks
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>
>
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