On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:06:27 +0100 Lars Bungum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't get my machine to turn itself off automatically (when I tell it > to do so in KDE), it just hangs saying "Power Down". Is there some > option I have to enable in order to get this working? Looked at the > APM/ACPI sections, but felt that was more related to laptops and > batteries, etc. My BIOS was too old for ACPI, anyway. > > --lars > Hi, You don't say which distro or kernel you are using, which may help. For what it is worth I had this problem a while ago. My Redhat box died and the only CD I had was debian. The new debian box (kernel2.4.18) would not power down automatically. I just loaded the apm module and things then worked as expected. regards, John Kelly - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
