Re: system will not soft power down

[Levi Waldron <levi.waldron@utoronto.ca>]

On November 15, 2002 01:17 pm, Mark Copper wrote:
> This is just what I needed, but it didn't work.  apt-get install went
> smoothly but "modprobe apm" failed.  The message in dmesg was
>         apm: BIOS not found
> I've got an intel d845bg board.  Any ideas?  Thanks.
>
> Mark

If your bios doesn't support APM (I'm not sure if yours does or not), then 
use the ACPI equivalent.  Remove apmd, then:

apt-get install acpid

I've never actually used acpi, so let me know how this works.

-- 
-Levi