On Thu, 3 May 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 07:56:19AM +0700, 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? > > Well, this distro _does_ include APM support compiled into the kernel. > However, that support is turned off by default because it's insane to > not support the least common denominator. > > If you read the thread you'll see lots of folks suggesting the > "apm=on" append line or kernel boot argument ... that turns on the APM > support that's in the stock kernel :) > > In short, you didn't have to recompile the kernel to get APM, though > there are plenty of good reasons to compile your own kernel IMO.
It looks like you have to recompile the kernel to get that feature. I use kernel-image-2.4.4-1 (supposedly unstable package ported to potato) and it does not seem to have apm support enabled. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apmd No APM support in kernel "dmesg" doesn't show any apm related messages. Yes, I could recompile the kernel but I really don't like doing that when I administer a large number of not very identically configured systems. It seems to be very inflexible having to recompile the kernel just to get poweroff to work. -akop
