Hi, I have a PC with APM support at home. I've installed Debian (Potato) onto it and built my own kernel with APM support compiled in (I needed to build my own to add the APM real mode calls option, as the default kernel crashes on a poweroff call).
Now, I can successfully shut down, but the "poweroff" command shuts down to power off mode, and then immediately reboots instead of switching the power off. Is this a known/common problem (I vaguely recall having a similar problem on this PC with Win98, before I removed it, and I have also had the same problem on a laptop running Windows NT). Is it a BIOS configuration thing, or is it something in the kernel options I need to change? Or do I need a BIOS upgrade (it's some version of a Phoenix BIOS, and the suppliers don't do downloadable upgrades :-( and the prople who supplied the PC are refusing to admit that there's an issue as "we don't support Linux" :-( :-() Thanks for any help, Paul.
