Re: why sarge can't power off PC

[Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk>]

Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:39:59 +0100
> Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>   
> > I have a similar problem.  During the recent very hot weather here in 
> > the UK, my box kept crashing.  
> >     
>
> Not something we have to worry about very often :-)
>   
True! :)
> [...]
>
>   
> > I followed the above instructions and this is the result;
> >
> > Yewdales-lodge:~# modprobe apm power_off=1
> > FATAL: Error inserting apm 
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.8-3-k7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.ko): No such
> > device [The file, apm.ko, is there, I checked.]
> > Yewdales-lodge:~# apm
> > No APM support in kernel
> >
> >     
>
> [...]
>
> I suspect that the kernel has acpi enabled. You can check by seeing 
> if the directory /proc/acpi exists and is populated. To use apm,
> you will need to disable acpi. You do this by passing the argument
> 'acpi=off' to the kernel, either on the grub command line or in the
> grub configuration file, /boot/grub/menu.lst. (I'm assuming that you
> use grub; with lilo the procedure is similar.)
Yes, acpi is there.  Is there a way to use it to restore my 
power-down/reboot stuff?  There doesn't seem to be a man page for it.

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