Re: Current on a Dell OptiPlex 760

[Mark Davies <mark%mcs.vuw.ac.nz@localhost>]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 08:36:03PM +1300, Mark Davies wrote:
> > 1) When you "halt -p", file systems unmount, kernel prints
> >
> >     acpi0: entering state 5
> > but it never powers off.
>
> If you boot single user and then do "sysctl -w
> machdep.acpi.sleep_state=5", does it power off?

Yes it does.

cheers
mark