This must depend on your hardware; it worked just fine for me in RedHat
6.1 as well as in Mandrake 7.0.
(With a Dell Inspiron 7500.)
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| > Linux can shutdown your machine automatically AND safely only if you
| > currently are running single processor mode. If you are shutting down
| > from smp, the power manager has been disabled and is unavailable to do
| > the shutdown. In the future maybe, but now from smp mode YOU get to push
| > the button.
| >
| APM (at least in RedHat/Mandrake 5.x and 6.x) is buggy and will cause the
| symptoms exhibited by the person who posted the original question. I can't
| speak for Mandrake 7.x, though.
| John
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