Re: How can I power down the computer?
on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:14:51PM -0700, Didier Caamano (blood_omen_666@hotmail.com) wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I was wondering if there is any option in which I can setup Debian to
> automatically power down my computer. So far whenever I issue the shutdown
> -h now command it does all what the OS needs to do but, it stop with a
> message of Power Down, like Now is save to turn your computer off, and I
> have to press the power bottom.
>
> If there any way to configure debian so it does everything in one step and
> I don't need to press the power bottom after all?
>
> Any suggestion will be apretiated.
> Didier.
You need to enable APM in the kernel with a boot-time (LILO/GRUB)
option.
See:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-install.en.html#s-apm
Peace.
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