"Petr [Dingo] Dvorak" wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2001, Alex Hunsley wrote: > > AH> Greg Wiley wrote: > AH> > > AH> > On Thursday, September 27, 2001 5:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AH> > > AH> > > Is it possible to get some sort of driver to allow > AH> > > debian to auto power-off the machine like windows does? > AH> > > AH> > What's cool is that the driver is in the kernel already! > AH> > You just have to turn it on. Append the string, > AH> > "apm=on", to your kernel parameters at startup. > AH> > AH> How do I access and change the kernel parameters? > AH> thanks > AH> alex > > edit /etc/lilo.conf and if you don't have append line there already add this: > > append="apm=on" > > then rerun /sbin/lilo and reboot your machine .. next time you do > > shutdown -h now > > it will automatically power-off the machine.
Thanks (to you and all others who responded), it works fine! cheers alex
