APM is bad, but APM power-off is ok. IE many of us use that to be
able to remotely power down a SMP box if needed (say in case of a
severe storm headed toward the area where the box is running).
Robert Hyatt Computer and Information Sciences
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Chris Selivanow wrote:
> Ruediger Back wrote:
> >
> > Is the power-off on shutdown supposed to work with 2.3.47 ? My
> > machine does not power off even though I passed the apm=power-off
> > command-line option. I have acpi and apm enabled (Intel PIIX4/440BXD
> > board). Oh yeah.. Power-off on shutdown works fine with the 2.2.x
> > kernels using the smp-power-off option.
> >
> > Comments welcome..
> >
> > Rudy
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> Somebody correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that
> SMP and APM are a bad mix and newer kernels won't even allow it
> (config disables APM when SMP is selected, even if you tell it to use
> APM).
>
> -Chris
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