Re: Power down

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>
> > Elmer E. Dow wrote:
> >
> > > I have an old Dell 333 desktop with Sarge and 2.6 kernel. I tried the 
> > > above instructions with no success. Any further ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> > Are you shure that power down is supported by your bios? On rather old 
> > hardware it might not be supported at all. Then you just have to turn 
> > the switch by hand.
> >
> > Johannes
> It worked with Win98, Red Hat and Libranet.
>
> Elmer

Well, as I said earlier, in my case it didn't work with the debian 
2.6.8-kernel. My notebook worked with Suse, so I just installed a newer 
kernel:
jw@johannes2:~$ uname -a
Linux johannes2 2.6.12-johannes2 #1 Sat Nov 5 15:19:13 CET 2005 i686 
GNU/Linux

...maybe it's a problem with 2.6.8 or Debian's version of it.

Johannes