Re: Debian 3.0r0 wont 'powerdown'
On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 08:48:14AM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote:
> 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?
Yes and no.
2.2 kernel comes with apm compiled-in. (Same as potato)
2.4 kernel comes with apm as modules. (Thus modprobe)
So depends on kernel-image version you choose.
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