On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 09:49:18 -0700 > "craigw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > Is it possible the that Compaq require ACPI support for the power off? > IIRC, Win98 provides ACPI support to a limited degree (I could be wrong > here).
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