On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:29, Miark wrote: > I have an old backup machine that doesn't reboot or powerdown > in Linux, but yesterday I got the idea to try apm=off at bootup. > The machine now reboots and powers down perfectly. > > I'd like to know why, but the only anomaly I noticed is that > APM is disabled in the BIOS. If APM is disabled in the bios, > does that mean you _must_ turn it off in Linux also to allow > reboots and powerdowns to work? Or is that just a coincidence > on my machine? > > Miark
in theory it's coincidence, because ACPI's presence is supposed to force unload of the APM modules. However, something about your laptop could be making the APM stuff hang up? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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