fedora core 1 shutdown problem

[minty95]

help!

i'm a total newbie and have been trying out fedora core 1 on an old compaq presario laptop (amd K6-2 400Mhz, 160Mb RAM) - what a fantastic distro.

I can't get it to power down, though. It goes through the usual shutdown routine, the display turns off, but the power stays on. Any ideas how i can get it to power off successfully?

[Icarus]

Just a thought, worth a try...
Try adding acpi=on to the end of your Grub config for Fedora, see if that helps.

Easy instructions
When the Grub screen comes up at boot, highlight the Fedroa Entry and hit "e".
Highlight the kernel line (the first or second line, it's the longest one) and hit "e" again
Go to the end of the kernel line and add [/b]acpi=on[/b]
Hit Enter
Hit "b" to boot off the change

Then try shutting down. Does this help, does it shutdown?
If so you need to make the change permament by editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf


If not, check if there is anything at http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ on the model number, sometimes that site is a gold mine with hints