"Wayne" == Wayne Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wayne> I've been running woody for around a year. Before upgrading
Wayne> my motherboard / processor (solteck 75drv5 I think, athlon
Wayne> xp2000) it used to soft power off no problem. Once I had
Wayne> rebuilt the pc using the existing hard disk, now I just get
Wayne> a 'power down' message and I have to hold in the power
Wayne> button for 5 secs before it shuts off the power.
Some newer motherboards do not have apm support, or disable it in the
BIOS in favor of ACPI. The Debian kernel I am using (2.4.18-k7) does
not provide ACPI support and includes apm as a module. So that might
be an explanation.
If so, you might need to recompile a kernel (just copy the
/boot/config-x.y.z-arch file as the kernel configuration and turn on
ACPI and turn off APM support and rebuild).
Or perhaps you can choose this in your BIOS?
Cheers!
Shyamal
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