Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-30 Thread Alex Hunsley
"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > AH> Greg Wiley wrote: > AH> > > AH> > On Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AH> > > AH> > > Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow > AH> > > debian to auto power-off the machin

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-30 Thread Petr \[Dingo\] Dvorak
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: AH> Greg Wiley wrote: AH> > AH> > On Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AH> > AH> > > Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow AH> > > debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does? AH> > AH> > What's cool

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-30 Thread Alex Hunsley
Greg Wiley wrote: > > On Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow > > debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does? > > What's cool is that the driver is in the kernel already! > You just have to turn it on

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 10:20:57AM -0500, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > Not so fast. Do you have 2 processors? AFAIK Linux SMP machines don't > completely support APM. Investigate further. :-) Not so fast. Now default 2.4 kernels have compiled apm as a module, it needs to be activated. For S

Re: auto power off / Standby capabilites under linux

2001-09-28 Thread hanasaki
How about support for standby mode? Alexander Wallace wrote: You need to add APM in the kernel... That worked for me... Hope that helps... On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and has capabilities to auto-power o

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-28 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
Alexander Wallace wrote: > > You need to add APM in the kernel... That worked for me... > > Hope that helps... Not so fast. Do you have 2 processors? AFAIK Linux SMP machines don't completely support APM. Investigate further. :-) > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > > The mothe

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-28 Thread Alexander Wallace
You need to add APM in the kernel... That worked for me... Hope that helps... On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: > The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and > has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The > default behaviour

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-27 Thread Mike Alborn
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:34:34AM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: > The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and > has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The > default behaviour of debian is to say "Power off" after halt, at which point

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-27 Thread Greg Wiley
On Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow > debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does? What's cool is that the driver is in the kernel already! You just have to turn it on. Append the string, "apm=on", to

Re: auto power off capabilites under linux

2001-09-27 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Alex Hunsley: > The motherboard I am running my debian setup on is quite modern (ABit BP7) and > has capabilities to auto-power off at shutdown - windows does this ok. The > default behaviour of debian is to say "Power off" after halt, at which point I > manually turn off the power. Is i

Re: auto power off

2000-08-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:40:50AM +0200, Philipp Schulte wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:20:14PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > 3) Make sure you enable APM support, and enable the power off at > >shutdown option. > > The option is calld something like "Use real APM mode ..." and I h

Re: auto power off

2000-08-30 Thread Yannick Jestin
> 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_D

Re: auto power off

2000-08-30 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:20:14PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: > 3) Make sure you enable APM support, and enable the power off at >shutdown option. The option is calld something like "Use real APM mode ..." and I have seen a system, where the system would *not* power off if this option was

RE: auto power off

2000-08-30 Thread CHEONG, Shu Yang \[Patrick\]
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. Patrick Cheong Information Systems Assurance Measat Broadcast Network Systems e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit us

Re: auto power off

2000-08-29 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 12:10:24AM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > I was wondering if there is anyway in Debian, when I use the halt command > the computer will shut off automatically if equpped with an electronic > power switch. Distributions such as SuSE and Redhat would shut down my > computer in