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. -- Nick 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? > > By the way, on mandrake when we do shutdown -h now, we see a > comforting sequence of messages about this and that being turned off > one by one, however with debian's poweroff we see one or two messages > --- we don't even know if it has properly turned everything off in > sequence or did we use some emergency stop command for use in case of > fire only. > > Indeed all the documentation I read about how to use debian never > mentions what happens one day when you (the nerve!) want to turn the > computer off. > > By the way the poweroff man page is a real winner with all the options > that only apply to some of the commands, and the different behaviors > depending on run level, for such a serious command. > -- > http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
