On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:34:34AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and > has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The > default behaviour of debian is to say "Power off" after halt, at which point I > manually turn off the power. Is it possible to get some sort of driver to > allow > debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does?
Depending on the kernel you are running, it may be as simple
as loading the apm module at boot. run modconf and insert the
apm driver into the kernel - I think it lives in
kernel/arch/i386 - at least in 2.4.x I did this, and the
system automagically powered itself off when shutting down.
HTH,
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