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Re: Power off at Shutdown



On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:28:22PM +0000, Ben P. Blackburne wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 00:44, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > Some machines are simply unable to power off from Linux's APM support.
> > Most SMP machines cannot, for example.
> 
> If you have SMP support enabled in the kernel config, then APM will be
> disabled even on single proc machines (at least in my experience).

True but this is half the story.

# insmod apm power_off=1

or append="apm=on apm=power-off" in lilo

should enable it.  Cheers :-)  

(I foregot which was used: _- , maybe both worked)
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