Re: Newbie Questions
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 01:31:51AM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:11:14PM -0700, C. Brewer wrote:
> > through the halt process and stopping with the message : Power Down,
> > without actually killing the power. Looking in my /etc/init.d/ I see
> > the halt and reboot scripts, but I am lacking the equivalent for
> > poweroff. Is this the
>
> I think you just need to enable APM support. Add a line that says
> append="apm=on"
> to your lilo.conf, re-run lilo and reboot. It should (if your hardware
> supports it) power itself off the next time you shutdown.
If C. Brewer was using 2.4 kernel, i think he need to do following from
the root (suppose he is not on SMP machine)
# echo apm >>/etc/mofules
# insmod apm
For full instruction, see "Debian Reference"
http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-install.en.html#s-apm
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