Re: apm

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@weierophinney.net>]

-- daves debian <dave_arahan@yahoo.co.uk> wrote
(on Monday, 16 December 2002, 06:34 PM +0000):
> Am i right in thinking that I need apm compiled in the kernel to allow my 
> system to turn its own power off when i
> 
> shutdown -h now ??
Or have the module a available. Do a 'modprobe apm' as root and see if
it works. If not, you'll either need to compile a kernel or get a
different kernel from the debian repository (there was a discussion of
this last week).

And yes, it does work on non-laptop systems.

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net