From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kelly Subject: Re: Machine to power off automatically. Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:50:45 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040111125045.49f04b65.bilbo@waitrose.com> References: <1073811986.2087.2.camel@shostakovitsj.larsemann> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1073811986.2087.2.camel@shostakovitsj.larsemann> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:06:27 +0100 Lars Bungum wrote: > I can't get my machine to turn itself off automatically (when I tell it > to do so in KDE), it just hangs saying "Power Down". Is there some > option I have to enable in order to get this working? Looked at the > APM/ACPI sections, but felt that was more related to laptops and > batteries, etc. My BIOS was too old for ACPI, anyway. > > --lars > Hi, You don't say which distro or kernel you are using, which may help. For what it is worth I had this problem a while ago. My Redhat box died and the only CD I had was debian. The new debian box (kernel2.4.18) would not power down automatically. I just loaded the apm module and things then worked as expected. regards, John Kelly - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs