Hi, I would greatly appreciate any help with this problem as I have spent days trying to solve this already with no success.
I've been running woody for around a year. Before upgrading my motherboard / processor (solteck 75drv5 I think, athlon xp2000) it used to soft power off no problem. Once I had rebuilt the pc using the existing hard disk, now I just get a 'power down' message and I have to hold in the power button for 5 secs before it shuts off the power. I was using lilo with a kernel option 'apm=on' but this made no difference. I have since switched to Grub and use the same kernel option. I was already using my own custom compiled kernel 2.4.16 and checked that apm was compiled into the kernel which it was. A thread I read suggested I set the option "Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off" which I did, and it still does not work. I also took the opportunity to grab the latest stable kernel 2.4.19 while I was about it. I now wonder if its the bios on the motherboard thats the problem and not the software at all, I checked the 'power management' settings in the bios and noticed it can / was using 'ACPI' so I tried disabling this in case this would help. As I understand it, ACPI is a newer standard that's not fully supported yet. Can anyone help by letting me know what kernel settings I should be using or any other help please? Regards Wayne. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
