Re: power off problem

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

At 06:18 PM 11/30/02 +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
>here is the recipie.
>
>make sure you have the following line in lilo.conf. if you dont have,
>add it and run lilo.
>
> append="apm=on apm=power-off noapic"
>
>now try insmod apm and halt. it 'should' power off. if it does, add apm
>on a separate line in /etc/modules

Someone clear this up for me.  

Isn't using append="apm=on ..." for passing to compiled in code, and if apm
is a module then shouldn't the "apm=off..." option be given when loading
the module -- e.g. specified when running modconf?


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