Re: desktop power managment

[mike <mikpolniak@adelphia.net>]

On Wed, 08 Nov 2000 21:20:45 -0800, David Yeh said:

> I have a cheap MyFavoritePC celeron 400 with added ram and hard disk space.
>   It works pretty well and fast with Linux.
>  
>  One thing I haven't been able to get it to do is shutdown the computer and
>  power it off.  I tried both kernel options for power down, both real mode,
>  and real mode disabled.  I've looked at the halt command in the init
>  scripts and it has the -p option passed to it.  I have no idea what's
>  wrong.  The computer turns off correctly with Win 2k and win98.
> 

	To power off my computer with 'halt' i needed to add this to my
lilo.conf: append='apm=on'. This works with the kernel CONFIG_APM=y.

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