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On 30-Sep-2002 at 16:54:05 Tony Atkin wrote:
I find that the ability of a pc to let the operating system turn it off varies with the hardware. Works fine on my work machine, but linux (whatever flavour) has never been able to achieve it on my home machine, even though win98 seems to know how to do it. I don't think it's a problem, shutting down from kdm or with "shutdown -h now" or whatever, provided linux goes through its own shutdown procedures and ends up with something like "ok to power down" or "reached runlevel 0" you can just pull the plug.
At home and at work I've found that it is not the APM as such that is required but the APCI (or whatever) bit of the kernel (using redhat). Without it I had the above scenario, by trying different things out on the kernel rebuild it seemed that APCI was the thing required. Shutdown now goes the whole way and turns off the system power. However, it will depend on your bios/hardware understanding the relevant calls as well. John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: jhorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key available from public key servers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.