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Re: debian is neat but how do I turn the computer off?



* Paul Johnson (baloo@ursine.dyndns.org) [020613 15:54]:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:02AM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote:
> > Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit
> > VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the
> > kernel. Check up on this as well as APM.
> 
> Depends on the board.  Some use that [weird] ACPI standard instead of
> APM like the rest of the world.

Weird or no, it's pretty nice when you have it set up right. Just press
the power button, and it shuts everything down cleanly and powers down.
Can APM do that? (that's a legitimate question, not a smarmy nah-nah
remark.)

If your board supports it, I'd recommend enabling ACPI in the kernel and
installing acpid to get that working.

good times,
Vineet
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