Re: Computer won't power off

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:50:58PM -0800, jennyw wrote:
| From: "dman" <dsh8290@rit.edu>
| > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:19:42AM -0800, jennyw wrote:
| > | I don't know ... I did a dist-upgrade. Would that upgrade the kernel?
| >
| > No.
| 
| Not really something I need to do right now, but how does one upgrade the
| kernel if not with dist-upgrade?

apt-get install kernel-image-<version>-<arch>

| >
| > What does
| >
| >     $ cat /proc/version
| >
| > say?
| 
| Linux version 2.2.17 (herbert@arnor) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000313 (Debian
| GNU/Linux)) #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000

The 2.2 kernels don't have apm as a module, so that isn't (shouldn't
be) your problem.

| > What does
| >
| >     $ cat /proc/cmdline
| >
| > say?  Does it have "apm=on" in it?
| 
| It says:
| 
|   auto BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=301

There's the problem.

| This is even after I added:
| 
|   append="apm=on"
| 
| To /etc/lilo.conf as someone suggested. I also ran lilo after making the
| edit as suggested in the config file. I also added apm to /etc/modules. Just
| for kicks I tried append="apm=1" and that didn't work, either.

I don't use lilo.  I would have expected it to work.  I guess double
check your lilo.conf and make sure you don't have a typo.

| The weird thing is that if I look in the log, it says that apm is turned off
| at user's request:
| 
|   Nov 30 15:47:05 ruth kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver
| version 1.13)
|   Nov 30 15:47:05 ruth kernel: apm: disabled on user request.

Yep -- in the kernel's compile-time config apm was disabled by
default.  Since the kernel didn't see "apm=on" on its command line, it
decides that you want it off.

-D

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