Re: power off on shutdown doesn't work
Akop Pogosian wrote:
>
> Linux kernel has a feature that enables a machine capable of turning
> the power off on it's own to do so with "shutdown -h.." or "poweroff"
> commands. I used to rely on this feature for shutting down my own and
> other machines remotely. I used to compile my own kernels but recently
> I switched to a pre-packaged 2.4.3 (woody package, back-ported to
> potato). Automatic power off on shutdown stopped working. Is there a
> reason that this useful feature is not enabled in the standard Debian
> kernels?
yes, because apm can wreck havok on some systems. i believe if you
put the line
apm=on
in your append statement for booting the kernel it should work, at least
thats what ive seen others post with regaurds to 2.2.x kernels.
hope this helps
nate
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