Re: Computer won't power off
dman,
Thanks for this info. I was previously using the
potato kernel 2.2.? and did the "apm=on" in lilo.conf
and when I gave it a shutdown it shutdown. Then I
moved up to hernel 2.4.12 and I had to manually
shutdown my laptop, the "apm=on" was still in
lilo.conf so I was stumped. As you said inset apm
into /etc/modules and it will work that is the step I
forgot. Did that and now it works thanks for the
information.
Don
--- dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> What does
>
> $ cat /proc/version
>
> say?
>
> | When I type poweroff, it does the same thing as
> before, the computer
> | just doesn't power down ... it unmounts all file
> systems then says power
> | off computer (or something like that) same as
> before -- it's just that
> | the computer remains on.
> |
> | I guess the solution is to recompile the kernel?
>
> That should only be necessary if apm support was not
> compiled at all.
> Did you make a custom kernel? If not, then apm
> support was compile,
> you just need to enable it.
>
> What does
>
> $ cat /proc/cmdline
>
> say? Does it have "apm=on" in it?
>
> If you have a 2.4 kernel, does
>
> $ /sbin/lsmod | grep apm
>
> output anything?
>
>
> Regardless of whether you have a 2.2 or 2.4 kernel
> you need to put
> "apm=on" in the kernel command line. This is done
> via your boot
> loader's configuration. (if you custom compile your
> kernel and say
> "Y" to apm then this is not necessary, but for the
> packaged kernels it
> is). If you have a 2.4 kernel you need to load the
> 'apm' module
> before shutting down the system. The easiest way is
> to add 'apm' to
> /etc/modules. (again, this is for the packaged
> kernels, if you
> compiled your own and said "Y" this is not
> necessary)
>
> HTH,
> -D
>
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