Nicolae Mihalache wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 May 1999, Constantine Gavrilov wrote:
>
> > Nicolae Mihalache wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > >From time to time my computer crashes and the power switches off
> > > as if somebody plugged it off.
> > > I turned off APM in BIOS, but the problem persists.
> > >
> > > My setup: Dual Pentium II 266Mz, Award BIOS, Intel 440LX chipset,
> > > an Adaptec 7880 controller with 2 SCSI disks and a realtek 8029 network
> > > card.
> >
> But if I disabled APM in BIOS can kernel power off my computer??
> Mache
Only if you use an non-SMP kernel. If you use an smp kernel on a SMP
machine, the kernel disables APM entirely and you cannot do power-off
on halt. This is because Linux SMP and APM can't coexist. There is an
smp-power-off feature which might have been working at some point but
it does not now. (Smp-power-off was supposed to disable most of APM
functions except the power-off feature). Maybe someone will fix it.
Regarding "disabling APM in BIOS". You can disable APM in BIOS and
still have full APM support in Linux (at least on many boards),
becuase Linux can set up APM itself.
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