Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Oct 1998 23:58:17 -0700 (PDT) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: Power down not working |
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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Jukka Tainio wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Neil Conway wrote: > > > But, APM is incompatible with SMP. What would be nice would be a way to > > just tell the PSU to turn off without having full APM support, so that > > SMP machines could be powered down automatically. > > Is there some special reason for this? I'm about to get my Tyan 1696DLUA > next week and going to run it SMP. I can live without Software Power off > -feature, but I must say, that I'm disappointed. ;(
Yes there is the hardware doen't support it.
> > It would for example be nice to be able to power down machine, if the > processor temperature rises to high. (Like in SUN workstations... ) > > > Surely the I/O ports or whatever for APM can just be tweaked to make > > this happen? > > > > Can't say it's a very vital feature though ;-) (and could be done by > > user code anyway like maybe in halt?). > > Anyone willing to do little tweaking? ;) > hmmm I've got a soldering iron if you want to start. ;)
-- Gerhard Mack irc-admin skyline.starchat.net
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As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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