Re: Power button works but...

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

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:03:17AM +0200, jean-michel le bot wrote:
| 
| Hello,
| After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a
| message saying "Power down."
| But then I have to hit the power button to switch off my computer. This is a 
| think I didn't have to do when I was running Mandrake 7.2 instead of Potato 
| 2r0 : my computer switched off automatically.
| So this is my question: is there a way to make my computer switch off 
| automatically after 'shutdown -h now' ?
| Shall I recompile the kernel for that or is there a more simple way (adding a 
| module...) ?

See the thread "Power button doesn't work" from yester day :-).

I see the "lilo" answer has already been given, so now here is the
grub answer copied from my other message :

> 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
> #                                             ^^^^^^


-D