Re: poweroff can't power off the power
Hello
linux china (<chinalinux@gmail.com>) wrote:
> My debian 3.1 celeron machine can't be powered off when I run the
> poweroff command, I had the same issue when I use other old
> distrubution Linux system many years ago but fixed by system update.
> Now I switched to Debian 3.1yesterday, and have the same very old
> issue again. But I don't know which package the bug is in, so I have
> no idea what to do next.
If you have an older system that doesn't support ACPI, you need to load
the apm module. Use
echo apm >> /etc/modules && modprobe apm
or install the apmd package.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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