At 15.45 29/02/00 -0500, billy ball wrote:
>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?
Slackware 7
>2. look at /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt
If I can't boot with APM enabled, what can I do with /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt ?
>3. you may need to add "-h" to the halt command
Does it work with a APM-disabled kernel?
>4. does your BIOS support Apm? if not, try:
The vendor says it does...
And it does because otherwise Win98 shouldn't be able to turn the machine off.
>http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html
Thanks anyway..
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