Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Jul 1998 10:10:57 +0200 | From | Jean-Luc Fontaine <> | Subject | Re: ISSUE: APM power off no longer works with 2.1 |
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Doug Nazar wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 1998 22:37:45 +0200, Jean-Luc Fontaine wrote: > > >[1.] APM power off no longer works with 2.1 > >[2.] the computer (a PC based on a FIC PA-2012 ATX motherboard) fails to > >power off with 2.1 kernels (tested with 2.1.109 up to 2.1.111), whereas > >it used to work with 2.0.34. Of course, kernels were all compiled with > >CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF turned on. > > The kernel was modified to support both halting and powering down. > The old method modified the halt function to poweroff. The 2.1 kernels > offer both a halt and poweroff function. You need to have a version of > sysvinit which can handle this. I'm using version 2.72 here. You then > need to modify your shutdown script (on slackware its /etc/rc.d/rc.0) > to call either 'halt -p' or 'poweroff'.
It works, thanks!I failed to see it documented anywhere though. Maybe a short explanation could be added to the CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF help?
-- Jean-Luc Fontaine mailto:jfontain@mygale.org http://www.mygale.org/~jfontain/
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