Re: why not my box automatically power-off?
On Thursday 27 November 2003 02:46, Akira Kitada wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:04:12PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> > On Monday 24 November 2003 15:19, Akira Kitada wrote:
> > > ?????CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y
> >
> > I found that this didn't do me any good... Perhaps that could be
> > it?
> >
> > Best,
>
> you mean culprit of this is "REAL_MODE"?
Yep.
> I don't know about it so much but I found some
> description of this on
> http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Battery-Powered/powermgm.html
Yup! I don't know much about it either, but I struggled with it for
about a year..., recorded in my /. journal:
http://slashdot.org/~KjetilK/journal/12005
> --
> Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off
> (CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF): This is a workaround for a number
> of broken BIOSes.
> If your computer crashes instead of powering off properly, turn this
> on. --
>
> I wonder this means if you don't use "broken BIOSes", don't turn it
> on?
Yes, exactly!
What I finally did was to compile APM as a module, nothing else at all.
That worked. The simplest possibility... Meanwhile, I had been
struggling with things like I2C to see if that had any relevance (it
didn't), and whatnot... :-)
Cheers,
Kjetil
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