Re: Getting power off to work in Etch...
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:44:38PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.
Hi Nigel,
I went through that bugreport, and creating a /etc/modprobe.d/apm containing
options apm power_off=1
fixed it for me.
Many thanks for all the pointers.
Regards,
DigbyT
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