On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Antonino Sabetta wrote:
> I've recently bought a Mitac laptop with a Celeron 400Mhz cpu.
> The problem is:
> Linux is not able to switch my computer off. I tried to enable
> the Apm in the kernel configuration and I recompiled it but
> it doesn't boot. I'm sure the laptop power down feature work because
> it does with Win98.
> Does anybody has any good news for me?
> Thanks in advance and please excuse me for my pour english.
> Regards
1. you don't say what Linux distro you're using... Red Hat?
2. look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt
3. you may need to add "-h" to the halt command
4. does your BIOS support Apm? if not, try:
http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html
(Gabor Kuti's kernel patches to allow *any* computer to hibernate
a Linux session.)
hth, antonino!
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