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Re: auto power off capabilites under linux



Thus spake Alex Hunsley:
> The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and
> has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The
> default behaviour of debian is to say "Power off" after halt, at which point I
> manually turn off the power. Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow
> debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does?
Far as I know, this is a kernel variable - try changing
CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF line in /usr/src/linux/.config to =y
If you <make xconfig> to recompile, this is discussed in the help file
associated.
Good luck,
Steve
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Keep the phase, baby.

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