Puppy 2.0A on HP 4560 Laptop: Power Off Issue

[reallynewby]

I am currently running Puppy 2.0A on a HP 4560 Laptop. Using puppy 2 I have developed a problem I have not had with other Puppies - when I power down all works well except that the message "poweroff" comes up as the last of the shut down messages and then nothing happens. I have to manually shut the unit down.

If I do a reboot, the unit will cycle all the way off then back on. I am also looking for any power management capability which does not seem to exist now. This laptop has an AMD Athlon xp-m but the fan runs continuously once the computer has been on for a few minutes. I suspect that this has something to do with not detecting ACPI but not sure.

Any help would be appreciated. Other than this issue, I have been able to get everything else to work on this laptop including built in Broadcom wifi.

Thanks in advance.

[BarryK]

Yes, the puppy2 alpha live-CD config file isolinux.cfg has "acpi=off" as one
of the boot parameters.
That could account for the shutdown problem.

[BarryK]

At the start of bootup, there is an opportunity to enter a boot parameter,
at the 5 second pause, type
puppy acpi=on
...see if that fixes it.

Another thing, would appreciate if you can try this, if the above doesn't work.
In /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown, comment-out the two lines that have "fuser" in them.
See if that makes any difference.

[reallynewby]

Barry,

I tried both of your suggestions - no success although I am not sure that I typed the acpi=on at the correct time during boot up. When I boot up (I am using sda1 usb 512k flash drive) I do not get a delay during boot up. Once image.gz starts loading, the only pause is when the system detects sda1 and begins loading the sfs file. It was at this point that I tried to type in the acpi=on.

I also edited the shutdown script per your instructions and it had no effect.

Please let me know if you think I have misinterpreted your instructions.

Thanks