Re: system will not soft power down
Oops. From man apmd: There is no interaction yet with ACPI...
So is there no way to use the "poweroff" command to turn this box off?
Mark
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, 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
>
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Levi Waldron wrote:
>
> > On November 15, 2002 08:46 am, Wayne Brown wrote:
> > > I've been running woody for around a year. Before upgrading my motherboard
> > > / processor (solteck 75drv5 I think, athlon xp2000) it used to soft power
> > > off no problem. Once I had rebuilt the pc using the existing hard disk, now
> > > I just get a 'power down' message and I have to hold in the power button
> > > for 5 secs before it shuts off the power.
> >
> > 1) Do you have apmd running? To make sure you have the most recent stable
> > version:
> >
> > apt-get install apmd
> >
> > 2) Is the apm module loaded?
> >
> > modprobe apm
> >
> >
> >
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