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Re: Debian 3.0r0 wont 'powerdown'



On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:32:15PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:25:07 -0500
> "Ron Stordahl" <ron.stordahl@digikey.com> wrote:
> 
> > With the newest Debian 3.0r0 for i386 shutdown now -h, or poweroff, goes
> > through the expected steps finally saying 'power down', at that point
> > nothing further happens.  Power remains on.
> > 
> > I am nearly positive that with earlier releases of Debian the power down
> > completed as expected.
> 
> Try the following:
>   modprobe apm
>   poweroff
> 
> If that works, add apm to the /etc/modules list of modules to load on
> startup:
>   echo apm >> /etc/modules

I thought this problem used to be solved by setting apm=on in the kernel
parameters in lilo/grub config.  Has this changed?  Dependent on Debian
and/or kernel version?

- Chris


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