> When I had RedHat installed, my machine would auto-power off at > shutdown. It doesn't do that anymore. How can I enable this under > Debian? APM? ACPI? Do I need a certain kernel? Can I easily modify the > modules of the current one?
If you use lilo as boot manager, you can put a line in /etc/lilo.conf: append="apm=on" Then run lilo on the commandline for the change to take effect.