[plug] Mandrake 10 shutdown question

[Chris Griffin]

On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:59:01 +0800 (WST), Michael Holland
<myk at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Chris Griffin wrote:
> 
> > I know I have probably been looking straight at it, but how do I shut
> > down with Mandrake 10?
> 
> from the console, the 3-finger salute will do it. See /etc/inittab  for
> the 'shutdown' command line that it runs.
I was trying to avoid this sort of thing, anyway the three finger
salute would result in a reboot, not a shutdown.
> 
> > I only seem to get logoff options and at the logon screen all the
> > shutdown/reboot options are greyed out. At the moment I am doing an
> 
> Did you do a text-mode login, and start X from there?
>
No, init level is set to 5 at startup.
> 
> > init 0 in a shell, but that does not power it off and I should be able
> 
> Do you have ACPI enabled?
> 
Mm, I would have to check this one. What does ACPI do?
> 
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