Re: Power button doesn't work

[D-Man <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:09:37PM +0000, p wrote:
| On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:33:27PM -0400, Derek Hans wrote:
| > What is APM?
| 
| //
| 
| (a)dvanced (p)ower (m)anagement.  
| 
| (i believe it would allow for the box to be shutoff via command,
| rather than manually pushing the power (off) button.)

This is correct.  You don't need to recompile your kernel to get APM
support -- simply add "apm=on" to the command line.  With grub it
looks like :


##########
# Entry 0:
title       Debian Potato (Linux 2.2.19)
root        (hd0,0)
kernel      /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 read-only apm=on
#                                             ^^^^^^


You can do the same thing with lilo, I _think_ it is "append apm=on"
but I'm not sure because I don't use it.


It is very convenient for the motherboard to power off without needing
to stick around and hit the power switch once it says "Power down.".

-D