indeed, booting with append= apm=on nls_cp950 nls_cp437
causes the second line not to appear in /var/log/messages anymore:
Jun 14 09:10:51 debian kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version
1.13)
Jun 14 09:10:51 debian kernel: apm: disabled on user request.
and allows shutdown -h now
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:56:33PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
| indeed, booting with append= apm=on nls_cp950 nls_cp437
^^^
I don't think any part of the kernel will actually do anything with
those arguments.
| and allows shutdown -h now to
On 15 Jun 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote:
However, no matter how I inquire to the kernel, e.g. lsmod, it doesn't
mention apm.
That's presumably because apm is compiled into the kernel and is not a
module.
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On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
| (b) how to make this change to /etc/inittab as a package to be installed
| on multiple machines?
One character difference. It doesn't look like inittab is in any
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
| On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 11:51, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
| | (b) how to make this change to /etc/inittab as a package to be installed
| | on multiple machines?
|
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 11:15:31AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 02:59:24PM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
| The package I have made (which also adds a graphical shutdown image
| using zgv) does this in the post-installation script ...
|
| # change
C == Chris Kenrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
C On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the
disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does indeed
turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So
On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:34:29AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
| By the way, of the other experiments:
| insmod: apm: no module by that name found
| I sure don't understand linux modules. It cannot be found, but one
| can turn it on at the boot prompt.
In the pre-packaged 2.2 kernels it is
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On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 04:34:29AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
By the way, of the other experiments:
insmod: apm: no module by that name found
I sure don't understand linux modules. It cannot be found, but one
can turn it on at the boot prompt.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the
disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does indeed
turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what have I not
adjusted?
You need to turn on APM
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
You want to turn the computer *off*!? OFF!? Why in the world would
you want to do such a thing? ;-)
| poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the
| disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 08:12:35AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
poweroff just does the same as shutdown -h now for me: turns off the
disks only. On mandrake 7.2 however, shutdown -h now does indeed
turn off the whole computer, cold, quiet. So what
Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit
VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the
kernel. Check up on this as well as APM.
ps - I heard that APM is turned off in the presence of SMP, so that may
have been the reason.
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Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit
VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the
kernel. Check up on this as well as APM.
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 03:54:13PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
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| On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:02AM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote:
| Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit
| VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off
ps - I heard that APM is turned off in the presence of SMP, so that may
have been the reason.
I coulda sworn it could still kill power for it on SMP systems...
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/Documentation/Configuration.help, line 115:
Symmetric Multi-Processing support
CONFIG_SMP
snip
The
* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020613 15:54]:
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 04:51:02AM -0500, Nick Traxler wrote:
Everyone has been recommending APM for this, but my motherboard (Abit
VP6) wouldn't turn the power supply off until I turned on ACPI in the
kernel. Check up on this as well as
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:53, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
Also, the default inittab has Ctrl-Alt-Del mapped to reboot the
system. You can always use that to try and reboot. (I remapped it to
shutdown on my systems because I wanted to)
(a) how to make this work even in X,
(b) how to make
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:39:54AM +1000, James Cameron wrote:
| On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 14:53, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| Also, the default inittab has Ctrl-Alt-Del mapped to reboot the
| system. You can always use that to try and reboot. (I remapped it to
| shutdown on my systems because
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