On Tue Apr 30, 2002 at 10:24:43AM -0500, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:33:03 -0500 > "Thomas H. George,,," <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > shutdown -h now switches to runlevel 0 and performs an orderly shutdown > > ending with the message power down. That other operating? system can > > turn the computer off. > > You don't meantion what kernel version you're using, but on my Woody > system with 2.4.x kernel's I found that I needed to add apm to my > "/etc/modules" so that the apm module is always loaded on boot. Once the > apm module was loaded, the "shutdown -h" or "poweroff" command was capable > of powering off my ATX systems. > I have the same problem on a Compaq. This box has RedHat 7.2, Mandrake 8.2, Debian (mostly)Potato with a hand rolled 2.4.18, Corel 1.2 with a hand rolled 2.2.18, and Windoze 98. They all have apm support but Windoze is the only one that can power down.
I blame it on Compaq's extremely crappy BIOS. Here is a message I see during boot: apm: BIOS not found I don't know if there's any way to fix it on this machine, but I just resigned myself to living with it. -- -CraigW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
