From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:52:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:52:24 -0500 Received: from cmr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net ([198.5.241.38]:26293 "EHLO cmr0.ash.ops.us.uu.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:52:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6498E7.2FE17BA@uu.net> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:54:31 -0500 From: Alex Deucher Organization: UUNET X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hahn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: APM, ACPI, WOL, Oh My! In-Reply-To: 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 Mark Hahn wrote: > > > mode, but the have the option apm=poweroff in my lilo.conf and with the > > apm=power-off. I'm looking at modern kernels, of course (2.4+). > power_off is a valid alternative. at one time, the magic string > was smp-power-off. > Whoops, I should reread my emails before I hit send; the actual string I have on my PC is apm=power-off. > some bioses also need to be returned to real mode before that call; > modern kernels have a config option for that. I tried that option, but it didn't matter, smae behavior. I also tried most if not all of the others like enable apm at boot time etc. > > > If I shutdown in linux using a vender kernel with apm that powers off > > the machine, it powers off fine and stays off until I hit the power > > button or I send a wake up packet. If I shutdown and power off using > > win98, or with the power button, the machine goes off, but will then > > preceed to reboot with in 3-4 minutes. This is completely repeatable. > > Turning it off manually during the reboot will not stop this. If I turn > > it off manually after it turns itself on, it will continue to try and > > reboot itself every few minutes. they only solution is to let linux > > boot and perform a shutdown and power off. then it stays off. > > so don't use win98 ;) I rarely do, which is why this problem is not as annoying as it could be :p > > > AFAIK, WOL is software independant. The only thing I can figure it that > > it's certainly not. It's not? But you can wake your PC remote with a WOL NIC regardless of the OS. Shutting the PC down again is another issue. Thanks, Alex - 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/