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I'm running DSL on a IBM Thinkpad 390 (PII, 256Mb RAM, 3Com PCMCIA net card). When I try powering it off (by using Power Down menu, pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL or even typing shutdown (tried with -g0 -y and with -rn now)) the system simply hangs after a few seconds (no messages, not even kills the GUI).

I tried tracing the shutdown, but seems it don't save anything to investigate.

Tried it on a frugal install and on a Live CD boot. Same problem with both.

Tried on other computers (laptops and desktops) with no problem at all).

Any help on solving or even tracing will be welcome.

Kind regards,

Chris

Try searching google for

Thinkpad 390 shutdown linux

or something like that.

I bet this problem is not unique

Thanks, cbagger01. AAMOF I tried that, but today I gave this a new shot. The nearer I got was some messages regarding APM problems, but leading to recompile the kernel with some new parameters (http://ustilago.ifrance.com/linux390.html).
Yesterday I left the computer running, and it hung a few times, not only during reboot. I believe this APM issue can help.
The question is: how do I recompile the kernel with these parameters?

Unfortunately, I am not an expert on kernel recompiling.

In fact, I have only done it once back in 2003 and that was using Peanut Linux which was easily preconfigured to do a kernel recompile.

The quick answer would be to install the gcc, ncurses and linux kernel header extensions from the myDSL repository and then give it a shot using some of the kernel compile help guides out there.

Good Luck.

Moving forward!!

Tried with (several times, several configurations) noacpi, acpi=no, acpi=force, noapm, apm=yes ... nothing worked out.

I realized that not even XWindow shutted down when tried powering off, so I tried not loading X at all (with "dls 2" cheatcode) and ... perfect!!! No X, no problem. When shutting down everything goes ok.

The new question is: what else doesn't load when cheatcoding "dsl 2"? Only XWindow? If not, how can I disable loading things one-by-one? If yes, is there another XManager I can try?

Sorry about the newbie doubts ... until now I was a simple Unix / Linux user ... but I'm getting deep.

Man, this DSL rules! The deeper I "snoop", the more I like it!

Thanks a lot (in advance) for any help!

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