Re: system will not soft power down

[Mark Copper <m.copper@wayne.edu>]

This is just what I needed, but it didn't work.  apt-get install went
smoothly but "modprobe apm" failed.  The message in dmesg was
	apm: BIOS not found
I've got an intel d845bg board.  Any ideas?  Thanks.

Mark

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Levi Waldron wrote:

> On November 15, 2002 08:46 am, Wayne Brown wrote:
> > I've been running woody for around a year. Before upgrading my motherboard
> > / processor (solteck 75drv5 I think, athlon xp2000) it used to soft power
> > off no problem. Once I had rebuilt the pc using the existing hard disk, now
> > I just get a 'power down' message and I have to hold in the power button
> > for 5 secs before it shuts off the power.
>
> 1) Do you have apmd running?  To make sure you have the most recent stable
> version:
>
> apt-get install apmd
>
> 2) Is the apm module loaded?
>
> modprobe apm
>
>
>