Re: Power off at Shutdown
*chuckle*, I still haven't completely worked that one out, on my Epox board,
with VIA kt133a chipset, that setup reboots my machine, doesn't shut it down
heh. Haven't found a viable workaround yet apart from taking the options out
and manually switching off.
Peter
On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:15, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> 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...
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