Re: Compaq Armada M700: "poweroff" does not power off

[Remo Inverardi <invi@your.toilet.ch>]

Ivar,

> You need to compile apm or acpi into the kernel to make a
> complete shutdown to work.

APM is compiled and linked into my kernel. As far as I can tell, APM 
works fine (/proc/apm shows battery stats etc). ACPI did no seem to work 
with the M700 when I last tried it using kernel version 2.4.20.

I read somewhere that you can press Ctrl-S to enter the M700 APM/ACPI 
BIOS menu. I tried it during POST and inside the regular BIOS, but 
nothing happens. Perhaps I need a BIOS update (which would be easier if 
I had a floppy drive ...)?

Thanks, Remo