On Fri, 4 May 2001, Oki DZ wrote: > Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > > What is Linux Mandrake doing differently, say compared with a recent > > Debian, which just hangs at "power down/off" ? > > The difference is on the setting of the kernel. > I use Debian and my system get powered off after "poweroff" command; of > course, the feature came after I had recompiled the kernel. > > BTW, I think it would be nicer if all the Linux distros assume that all > Intel motherboards are ATX. How many bytes would get added if you have > the APM support on the kernel? > > Oki >
Yes, the reason it doesn't work is because APM support was not compiled in at all. I am using kernel-image-2.4.4-1. Not because I need some line in /etc/lilo.conf -akop
