Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

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

On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote:

AH> Greg Wiley wrote:
AH> > 
AH> > On  Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:34 PM, fakeAddress@somewhere.com wrote:
AH> > 
AH> > > Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow
AH> > > debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does?
AH> > 
AH> > What's cool is that the driver is in the kernel already!
AH> > You just have to turn it on.  Append the string,
AH> > "apm=on", to your kernel parameters at startup.
AH> 
AH> How do I access and change the kernel parameters?
AH> thanks
AH> alex

edit /etc/lilo.conf and if you don't have append line there already add this:

append="apm=on"

then rerun /sbin/lilo and reboot your machine .. next time you do 

shutdown -h now 

it will automatically power-off the machine.

                                                Dingo.


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