Re: Power button works but...

["Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak" <dingo@texoma.net>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, jean-michel le bot wrote:

jlb> 
jlb> Hello,
jlb> After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a
jlb> message saying "Power down."
jlb> But then I have to hit the power button to switch off my computer. This is a 
jlb> think I didn't have to do when I was running Mandrake 7.2 instead of Potato 
jlb> 2r0 : my computer switched off automatically.
jlb> So this is my question: is there a way to make my computer switch off 
jlb> automatically after 'shutdown -h now' ?
jlb> Shall I recompile the kernel for that or is there a more simple way (adding a 
jlb> module...) ?

edit /etc/lilo.conf and add this to your 'append' line: apm=on

if you don't have anything else in append it should look like this:

append="apm=on"

don't forget to run lilo after you change the conf file ;)
	
					HTH
                                               Dingo.


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