Re: Getting power off to work in Etch...

[Nigel Henry <cave.dnb@tiscali.fr>]

On Tuesday 30 October 2007 18:58, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Does anyone know the secret to getting Etch to power down the system
> after a halt. I have tried 'apt-get install apmd', but it doesn't
> seem to have helped.
>
> I know the hardware can do it, because it worked with the very old
> version of Ubuntu I tried before Debian (5.04).
>
> The machine is a Dell Precision 410 with new Etch netinst just done...
>
> Thanks,
> DigbyT

Hi Digby. Just an update. I found the the link to the bugreport for the 
shutdown problem. It may, or may not resolve your problem, but is below.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390547

Cordialement.

Nigel.