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Re: APM: Poweroff actually does a reboot



Once upon a time, I heard Moore, Paul say

> Hi,
> I have a PC with APM support at home. I've installed Debian (Potato) onto it
> and built my own kernel with APM support compiled in (I needed to build my
> own to add the APM real mode calls option, as the default kernel crashes on
> a poweroff call).
> 
> Now, I can successfully shut down, but the "poweroff" command shuts down to
> power off mode, and then immediately reboots instead of switching the power
> off. Is this a known/common problem (I vaguely recall having a similar
> problem on this PC with Win98, before I removed it, and I have also had the
> same problem on a laptop running Windows NT).
> 
I think it's more of hardware/bios problem since I have one Gateway box
among many Gateway box that refuse to powerdown :( And I couldn't find a way
to overcome the problem. ANW, I always leave the box on all the time so it's
not a big problem.

Chanop

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