On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 10:06:42AM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Thursday 27 November 2003 02:46, Akira Kitada wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:04:12PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > On Monday 24 November 2003 15:19, Akira Kitada wrote: > > > > ?????CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y > > > > > > I found that this didn't do me any good... Perhaps that could be > > > it? > > > > > > Best, > > > > you mean culprit of this is "REAL_MODE"? > > Yep. > > > I don't know about it so much but I found some > > description of this on > > http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Battery-Powered/powermgm.html > > Yup! I don't know much about it either, but I struggled with it for > about a year..., recorded in my /. journal: > http://slashdot.org/~KjetilK/journal/12005 > > > -- > > Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off > > (CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF): This is a workaround for a number > > of broken BIOSes. > > If your computer crashes instead of powering off properly, turn this > > on. -- > > > > I wonder this means if you don't use "broken BIOSes", don't turn it > > on? > > Yes, exactly! > > What I finally did was to compile APM as a module, nothing else at all. > That worked. The simplest possibility... Meanwhile, I had been > struggling with things like I2C to see if that had any relevance (it > didn't), and whatnot... :-)
I took your advice. just right now I turned on APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF, rebuilt the kernel, and had it installed. Now my box can power-off automatically when I issue 'shutdown -h'. as you said the origin of my problem was that. thank you for your good and quick advice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
