When I shut down antiX Linux, it doesn't always do so completely. What sometimes happens is that the system starts to shut down and I hear the computer click, but I still see the desktop (frozen in place) and the computer stays on. I have to hold in the power switch manually in order for the computer to shut down.

I tried adding"acpi=force" to the end of each line in the /boot/menu.list file starting with kernel, but even booting up with that boot code isn'e enough.

This is an old computer (2001 vintage IBM NetVista), which may be related to this issue.

The memtest entry in grub's menu is for testing the ram, maybe you should give it a go (beware that if you leave it on it goes on for a long time).

Can you post inxi -F, just curious what specs you have, I had this issue at one time on my old dell lappie, had to add some code to xorg.conf.
to get it to shutdown completely.

cheers,
oldhoghead

The output of inxi -F for this computer is:

System: Host antiX1 Kernel 2.6.32-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.5 Marek Edelman 11 April 2010
CPU: Single core Pentium III (Coppermine) (UP) cache 256 KB flags (sse) bmips 2004.33 clocked at 1001.922 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller X.Org 1.6.5 Res: 1024x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Software Rasterizer GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1-DEVEL Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card Intel 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports f000 f400 BusID: 00:1f.5
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network: Card Intel 82557/8/9/0/1 Ethernet Pro 100 driver e100 v: 3.5.24-k2-NAPI at port 78c0 BusID: 01:02.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 20.4GB (23.5% used) 1: /dev/hda QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20 20.4GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 15G used: 4.5G (33%) fs: ext3 ID:swap-1 size: 0.27GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 77 Uptime 4 min Memory 84.3/246.7MB Runlevel 5 Client Shell inxi 1.4.9

jhsu,

You can try this, it worked on my rig YMMV, but it's worth a shot:

In my xorg conf I added the the last two lines to:

Section"Device"
Identifier"Configured Video Device"

Driver"intel"
Option"ForceEnablePipeA""true"

of course make a backup of your xorg.conf before you try this

cheers,
oldhoghead

Where is the xorg.conf file? The find feature can't even locate it.

oldhoghead wrote:jhsu,

You can try this, it worked on my rig YMMV, but it's worth a shot:

In my xorg conf I added the the last two lines to:

Section"Device"
Identifier"Configured Video Device"

Driver"intel"
Option"ForceEnablePipeA""true"

of course make a backup of your xorg.conf before you try this

cheers,
oldhoghead

/etc/X11/xorg.conf