Hi, Mike-
You would want to start by checking the specs for your PC, or your
motherboard if you built it yourself. FWIW, ACPI is anologous to
Winmodems- it is dumber hardware run by smarter software. In the case of
ACPI, though, it is basic system functions like power down, power
management and cooling which are controlled by ACPI. Although there is
an implementation of ACPI in Linux, computer manufacturers are largely
doing a bad job of adhering to standards, so the ACPI does not always
function.
Mandrake 10.1 is supposed to automatically detect and configure ACPI,
but in my very limited experience it does not bat a thousand with this.
You can check to see if ACPI is installed but just not working by
looking for a folder called ACPI in your PROC directory. If there is an
ACPI folder and it is populated, you have ACPI running but it is not
talking to your computer.
You say that it worked once. Perhaps you could also go into the Mandrake
Control Center under "services" and see if ACPI is set to start up at boot.
Lee
mike enriquez wrote:
>This computer also has winxp on it and xp will shut it down.
>I have run Knoppix CD on it and Knoppix will shut it down, but not
>Mandrake 10.1?
>How to check for ACPI under Linux is "Greek" to me.
>Thanks
>Mike
>
>
>On Sat, 2005-02-26 at 06:52, Lee Einer wrote:
>
>
>>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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