On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 09:03:17AM +0200, jean-michel le bot wrote: | | Hello, | After running shutdown -h now, the system shuts down and issues a | message saying "Power down." | But then I have to hit the power button to switch off my computer. This is a | think I didn't have to do when I was running Mandrake 7.2 instead of Potato | 2r0 : my computer switched off automatically. | So this is my question: is there a way to make my computer switch off | automatically after 'shutdown -h now' ? | Shall I recompile the kernel for that or is there a more simple way (adding a | module...) ?
See the thread "Power button doesn't work" from yester day :-). I see the "lilo" answer has already been given, so now here is the grub answer copied from my other message : > 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 > # ^^^^^^ -D
