Re: Power off at Shutdown

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote:

>
> hello:
>
> i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i
> build a new kernel (2.4.12). i have set the following with no luck:
>
> # General setup
>
> CONFIG_PM=y
> CONFIG_APM=y
> CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y
> CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
> CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
>
> # Kernel hacking
>
> CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
> CONFIG_KERNEL_DEBUG=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_IOVIRT=y

Some machines are simply unable to power off from Linux's APM support.
Most SMP machines cannot, for example.

Fiddle with your BIOS settings to make it work.

-jwb