*chuckle*, I still haven't completely worked that one out, on my Epox board, with VIA kt133a chipset, that setup reboots my machine, doesn't shut it down heh. Haven't found a viable workaround yet apart from taking the options out and manually switching off.
Peter On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 10:15, Paul Mackinney wrote: > With a generic kernel (I installed Potato, used apt to upgrade > to Woody), adding > > append="apm=on" > > to /etc/lilo.conf did the trick. > > When I compiled my own 2.4.12 kernel, I had to enable both > > CONFIG_APM=y > > and > > CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y > > to get it to work, I no longer need the line in lilo. Note that > I configured my kernel with xconfig, the first APM option is > what you get when you enable APM in the kernel, the second APM > option is at the bottom of the list, the Help text for it says > that some buggy BIOSes require this setting (are you listening, > ABIT?) > > HTH, Paul > > PS: I knew that auto-power off should work because Windows does...
