Will -
You need to enable power off on shutdown in you kernel.
To do this as root run: make menuconfig or make xconfig
Select:
Character Device --> APM Bios support --> Power off on shutdown
Then compile and install the new kernel
-James
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Subject: Re: Power down and kernel settings
On 05-Feb-99 aoc2 wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> This is a two parter
>>
>> First off I would like to thank you all for being so helpful
>>
>> 1. My mother board supports Advanced Power Management and I would like to
>> know
>> if it is possible to "completely" shut the computer down. Meaning, is
there
>> a
>> command that will shut down Linux and than turn off my computer.
>>
>> I have tried "halt -p" and "poweroff" they both do not turn off my
computer.
>
> shutdown -h now. this'll kill all the daemons and shutdown the computer
> by sending a signal to the bios.
>
This does not work.
>
>> 2. Is there a way I can find out what was compiled in to my current
kernel.
>> I am using RH 5.0 and upgraded to 5.2.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Will
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