Powering down (after halting) Slackware

[Goran]

Hi. How to make my computer power down after issuing the halt command (like in Gentoo) ?

[AAnarchYY]

it shoud do it automaticaly, mine does

[adrenaline]

mine goes down to a manual power down. It won't shut my computer down all the way. I thought this was normal for Slackware. If someone knows different that would be helpfull.

[Pimp Daddy]

Before I switched to a graphical login system, I used 'shutdown -h' at the prompt and when it said 'Power Down' I just waited a few seconds and turned it off.

[adrenaline]

Mine will sit in power down mode all night long and won't power down unless I hit the power button.

[U-Turn]

Mine did the same thing. It would reach the "Power Down" point and just stay there until I manually hit the switch.
Then, the last time I re-installed Slack, I decided to install the bareacpi.i kernel package instead of bare.i. Now, no matter how I give the shutdown command, it shuts down correctly.
Check to see if your bios is acpi enabled. If so, you will need the bareacpi.i kernel package for software shutdown.

[Goran]

Well, my distro just gives the "Power down. " message and sits there until I press the turn off button. I used bare.i for my kernel though, I'll try using bareacpi.i instead. Thanks for the info, it is not a problem if it doesn't shut down by itself but it is becoming boring to hold the button for ~4 seconds until it does so

[Goran]

I have changed the kernel to bareacpi.i and it still wouldn't shut down, but it wouldn't boot either (LILO says Loading Slackware ....... and screen just goes black). Anyway, I restored the old kernel (bare.i) and I won't play with it anymore

[heartsmagic]

Mine will sit in power down mode all night long and won't power down unless I hit the power button.

adrenaline as root,edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.M file and uncomment
apmd lines ...

Then halt the machine.

[adrenaline]

Unless it is in two different places. It is already uncommented by default.