On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:09:37PM +0000, p wrote: | On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 06:33:27PM -0400, Derek Hans wrote: | > What is APM? | | // | | (a)dvanced (p)ower (m)anagement. | | (i believe it would allow for the box to be shutoff via command, | rather than manually pushing the power (off) button.)
This is correct. You don't need to recompile your kernel to get APM support -- simply add "apm=on" to the command line. With grub it looks like : ########## # Entry 0: title Debian Potato (Linux 2.2.19) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 read-only apm=on # ^^^^^^ You can do the same thing with lilo, I _think_ it is "append apm=on" but I'm not sure because I don't use it. It is very convenient for the motherboard to power off without needing to stick around and hit the power switch once it says "Power down.". -D
