On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 08:19:42AM -0800, jennyw wrote: > I don't know ... I did a dist-upgrade. Would that upgrade the kernel? > > When I type poweroff, it does the same thing as before, the computer > just doesn't power down ... it unmounts all file systems then says power > off computer (or something like that) same as before -- it's just that > the computer remains on. > > I guess the solution is to recompile the kernel?
not likely. Debian Stock Kernels are compiled with apm, you simply need to activate it by passing "apm=on" to the kernel. for lilo add to /etc/lilo.conf: append="apm=on" for grub add it to the kernel stanza: kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 apm=on read-only -- groetjes, carel
