Re: poweroff wont poweroff
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:49:18 -0700
"craigw" <craigw@lvcm.com> wrote:
> I have the same problem on a Compaq. This box has RedHat 7.2, Mandrake
> 8.2, Debian (mostly)Potato with a hand rolled 2.4.18, Corel 1.2 with a
> hand rolled 2.2.18, and Windoze 98. They all have apm support but
> Windoze is the only one that can power down.
>
> I blame it on Compaq's extremely crappy BIOS.
>
> Here is a message I see during boot:
> apm: BIOS not found
Is it possible the that Compaq require ACPI support for the power off?
IIRC, Win98 provides ACPI support to a limited degree (I could be wrong
here).
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Jamin W. Collins
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