On Thursday, Jun 19th 2003 at 09:06 -0500, quoth Chris Adams: =>Once upon a time, Neil Bird <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> said: =>> We've just installed a spanking new RH9 on a Compaq, and it doesn't =>> power-off itself, just hanging after shutdown with "power off". =>> =>> There's no /proc/apm, and I can't even find an apm kernel module. Is =>> it not used any more? Where does it come from? apmd is installed & =>> enabled, but it just doesn't start (no /etc/apm or apm module). => =>Your new box probably doesn't support APM, it probably only supports =>ACPI, and since ACPI support in Linux is not so good, RHL 9 doesn't =>include it (so your box won't power off from Linux). No. I can't remember what the incantation is but there's an APPEND= that's needed in your grub.conf to make APM automatically shut off for SMP boxes. Does anyone remember what it is? -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net
