Re: auto power off capabilites under linux
"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" wrote:
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> On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote:
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> 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
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> edit /etc/lilo.conf and if you don't have append line there already add this:
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> append="apm=on"
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> then rerun /sbin/lilo and reboot your machine .. next time you do
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> shutdown -h now
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> it will automatically power-off the machine.
Thanks (to you and all others who responded), it works fine!
cheers
alex
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