Re: Power off at Shutdown

[Paul Mackinney <paul@mackinney.net>]

With a generic kernel (I installed Potato, used apt to upgrade 
to Woody), adding 

append="apm=on"

to /etc/lilo.conf did the trick.

When I compiled my own 2.4.12 kernel, I had to enable both

CONFIG_APM=y

and 

CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y

to get it to work, I no longer need the line in lilo. Note that
I configured my kernel with xconfig, the first APM option is 
what you get when you enable APM in the kernel, the second APM
option is at the bottom of the list, the Help text for it says 
that some buggy BIOSes require this setting (are you listening, 
ABIT?)

HTH, Paul

PS: I knew that auto-power off should work because Windows does...
-- 
Paul Mackinney
paul@mackinney.net