From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 01:59:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 01:59:06 -0500 Received: from 209.102.21.2 ([209.102.21.2]:37391 "EHLO dragnet.seagull.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 01:58:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3A55403C.39E4A48B@goingware.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 03:32:12 +0000 From: "Michael D. Crawford" Organization: GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-prerelease-ac5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org As suggested, I added: apm=power-off to the kernel line of my grub menu.lst file and now I can power off. I almost jumped when the machine snapped off - my bloody monitor doesn't go dark when it loses signal it lights up with an RGB test pattern (TTX - don't buy one). I think the real reason it wasn't working was that, although I'm using a one-processor machine with a motherboard that only allows for one processor, I had enabled SMP in the kernel, and this disables APM. In my own work I mostly do multithreaded software development and I just sort of felt like it would be good karma to enable it even if my machine didn't support it. Go figure. So this was mostly a user error, although I guess I've been helpful in discovering the current interaction of ACPI and APM. I'll read up a bit more on ACPI and see what I can do with that later on. Thanks for the help. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by: http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ crawford@goingware.com Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/