Re: Power down

[Noah Dain <noahdain@gmail.com>]

On 1/13/06, Felipe Ledesma <felipe.ledesma@coplan.com.ve> wrote:
> Hi
>
> My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I just upgraded from
> kernel 2.4 to 2.6 in Debian Sarge, and of course I want it to shutdown
> automatically. What should I do to fix this?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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I had a bunch of crappy dells (is there any other kind?) that did this.

I disabled acpi support via the kernel param: acpi=off
I then added "apm" to /etc/modules so apm is loaded on every boot, and
installed/started apmd (although apmd may not be necessary).

be sure to add "acpi=off" to /boot/grub/menu.lst like:

  ## ## Start Default Options ##
  ## A FEW LINES OF COMMENTS IN HERE ...
  # kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro acpi=off

then run (as root): update-grub
then, reboot.

I'm sure there's a way to get acpi to work, but apm has always "just
worked" for me.

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Noah Dain
"Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing
to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM
Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25