Re: poweroff wont poweroff
On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> 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).
With Compaq, anything is possible! Compatibility has never been their
strong suit.
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