Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

[David Raleigh Arnold <dra@openguitar.com>]

Alexander Wallace wrote:
> 
> You need to add APM in the kernel... That worked for me...
> 
> Hope that helps...

Not so fast.  Do you have 2 processors?  AFAIK Linux SMP machines don't
completely support APM.  Investigate further.  :-)
> 
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > alex
> >
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