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#1 2004-06-14 01:45:58

yarjar
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A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

1) Computer won't shut down.
Whenever I turn it off, it just hangs there, and it won't turn off if I press the power button (I have to turn off the powerstrip).  I tried doing "pacman -S apmd" and then added "apm="power-off"" to GRUB's menu.lst file, but that didn't work.
EDIT: acpi=force worked.

2) mplayer-plugin doesn't work with Mozilla Firefox
Although it does with Epiphany.  Any idea why?
EDIT: Don't use GNOME/Firefox anymore, so I don't really care about this question now >_> Thanks for any help though.


Thanks for all of your help.

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#2 2004-06-16 04:06:03

yarjar
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

Anyone?

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#3 2004-06-18 02:28:34

yarjar
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

oneearth wrote:

Hi,

How are you shutting down? Recently, the normal shutdown command that I used "shutdown -h now" stopped turning off the computer. I searched the forum and someone said that "shutdown -h -t now now" did the trick.

"shutdown -h -t now now" also did the trick for me and shut off the computer power.

Didn't work for me.

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#4 2004-06-18 02:44:17

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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/faq/ge … 0000000000

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#5 2004-06-18 04:05:50

yarjar
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

My BIOS says that Power Management is enabled (doesn't specify whether it's APM or not)

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#6 2004-06-18 15:12:39

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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

It has to be enabled in the kernel too. There's lots of threads on the specific commands to do it, do a forum search.  You have to edit eihter lilo.conf or grub's configuration stuff. I think you just have to add append=acpi=on or something like that. (or apm)

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#7 2004-06-18 15:29:23

deepfreeze
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

yarjar wrote:

I have just a few problems with Arch Linux.  Other than these, it's been a great learning experience.

1) Computer won't shut down.
Whenever I turn it off, it just hangs there, and it won't turn off if I press the power button (I have to turn off the powerstrip).  I tried doing "pacman -S apmd" and then added "apm="power-off"" to GRUB's menu.lst file, but that didn't work.

Welcome to Arch. I don't know what kernel you're running (I'll assume 2.6.x).  I had the same problems and this did the trick:

append=power-off (notice, no quotation marks) to my menu.lst file and that worked just fine for me.  I'm not sure if the quotes make a difference or not, but I tend to think they will.

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#8 2004-06-18 23:09:15

yarjar
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

I use kernel 2.6.7 with GRUB 0.95.

I've tried apm="power-off", apm=power-off, append=power-off, append="power-off", and append=apm=power-off, and none of them have worked.

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#9 2004-06-18 23:31:32

hecker
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

you have written this command directly behind the kernel option (dumb question,sorry for that)? for example:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd0,2)
kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 pci=noacpi vga=0x317 apm=power-off ro

btw: in grub you dont need append or "..."

what i miss is a list with ALL the secret grub kernel boot commands wink

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#10 2004-06-19 00:58:17

yarjar
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

^ Still did not work.  (and yes, I put it on the right line)

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#11 2004-06-19 01:27:05

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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

hecker wrote:

what i miss is a list with ALL the secret grub kernel boot commands wink

Yeah... it's called the kernel documentation... read it sometime.

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#12 2004-06-19 11:19:11

hecker
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

Yeah... it's called the kernel documentation... read it sometime.

ups  :oops:

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#13 2004-06-19 11:43:10

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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

1) I was playing around with power management for ages before I got my computer doing what I wanted...after trying every boot option I could think of and different kernel options I just compiled in acpi and it worked. I don't need to run any acpid or anything or pass any boot parameters, but of course it depends on your particular BIOS etc..just trial and error really.
2) To get mplayer plugin working make a soft link in your plugins directory -
This is what I have in /opt/mozilla-firefox/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins

[robot5x@sigma7 robot5x]$ ls -al /opt/mozilla-firefox/lib/mozilla-1.6/plugins/
total 1469
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     280 May 15 18:38 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root    1192 Apr 13 08:17 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      36 May 15 18:22 flashplayer.xpt -> /opt/mozilla-plugins/flashplayer.xpt
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root 1470464 Feb 15 19:31 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      54 May 15 18:18 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /opt/j2re/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   26563 Apr 13 03:08 libnullplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      37 May 15 18:13 mplayerplug-in.so -> /opt/mplayer-plugin/mplayerplug-in.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      41 May 15 18:38 nppdf.so -> /opt/acrobat/Browsers/intellinux/nppdf.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root      24 Mar 28 19:16 rpnp.so -> /opt/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so

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#14 2004-06-19 13:14:53

tpowa
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

hi
acpi=force
can also help if your bios is older than 2000

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#15 2004-06-19 16:13:05

Xentac
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

robot5x wrote:

2) To get mplayer plugin working make a soft link in your plugins directory -

Or better yet, don't.  Check out /etc/profile.d/mozilla-plugins.sh.  Anything in /opt/mozilla-plugins will already be loaded by mozilla and firefox without any other fiddling.

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#16 2004-06-19 19:26:42

yarjar
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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

tpowa wrote:

hi
acpi=force
can also help if your bios is older than 2000

Which it is.  Thanks, that did the trick!

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#17 2004-06-19 23:03:35

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Re: A few [minor] problems... [SOLVED]

I'm glad you solved it, but did you tried on?

arch + gentoo + initng + python = enlisy

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