> The stock kernel which comes with Debian (2.2) has the auto power off > function disabled! To enable this feature, you need to recompile the > kernel...which is suggested anyway.....
In fact, it is disabled but compiled into the kernel: $ grep APM /boot/config-2.2.15 CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_APM_DISABLE_BY_DEFAULT=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set To enable the Power off on shutdown, with ATX boxes, add append="apm=on" in your /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo, reboot ! -- y.