Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:28:44 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: APM_power_off |
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Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Please dismiss if this is irrelevant to the forum. > > > > > > On my Athlon 500/Microstar 6167 - machine, the power-off on shutdown > > > does not work with 2.3.47 as it does with 2.2.13. Does anyone know why > > > that is? > > > > Because you are using outdated technology! APM must die, die, die... > > > > Download and install acpid, and enable CONFIG_ACPI. Power-off on > > shutdown will work beautifully. Forget about APM, you shouldn't use > > such an old technology on such a nice new machine ;-) > > When did acpid start doing useful stuff? When I tried it, around 2.3.40 > time, the only notable effects where that enabling ACPI in the kernel > prevented apmd from correcting the time after a suspend, and acpid > prevented my laptop from suspending at all. > > Until that's changed, only APM is useful for me.
Hacking has definitely occurred since then. Power-off and idle (power save) work fine for me, both on my desktop K6 and my laptop K6. I haven't tested suspend... maybe you would be up to grabbing the latest kernel and acpid, and testing suspend and resume?
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