you must compile the kernel with APM support. i would reccomend against turning off a computer often, powering on a system gives quite a surge of power which can increase wear on the components, ive always kept my boxes on 24/7 since around 94. i also reccomend against disk spindowns but that is because back in 1995 i lost 4 drives in 6 months(all brand new) due to disk spindowns.
nate On Mon, 7 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debuse >In Windows, when I shutdown the computer, it automatically turns off the debuse >power. I believe it's something in the BIOS that allows this as not all debuse >machines running Windows do this. Is there a way to make Linux do the same debuse >thing? I like listening to MP3's as I go to sleep and would like have it debuse >shutdown and turn off the power after 30 minutes so that it is not debuse >generating heat and I don't have to hear the fan in the middle of the debuse >night. debuse > debuse >Thanks, debuse > debuse >Gerry debuse > debuse > debuse > debuse >-- debuse >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null debuse > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1:04pm up 20 days, 20:32, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.03, 0.01
