I don't know that it makes much difference, but it was a desktop machine, not a laptop.
Miark On 05 Mar 2003 10:47:28 -0800 Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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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