On Fri, 24 May 2002, Thomas Ward wrote: > Hi, list. I was hoping someone here has the answer to this problem. I've > just built a 2.4.18 kernel with speakup, but it doesn't power my machine > down like it is suppose to.I've tried turning on and of different apm > options in the kernel config, and nothing has worked. Can someone tell me > exactly what options are required to get Linux to properly shutdown and > turn off my computer? > The stock kernels do it fine, but my kernel won't do it. As I recall, unless you have a broken bios you just need to enable apm support and it should work, if you read the help for each option, it'll tell you. I enabled a couple more options for my laptop but that was for apmd functionality and stuff. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
