With a generic kernel (I installed Potato, used apt to upgrade to Woody), adding
append="apm=on" to /etc/lilo.conf did the trick. When I compiled my own 2.4.12 kernel, I had to enable both CONFIG_APM=y and CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y to get it to work, I no longer need the line in lilo. Note that I configured my kernel with xconfig, the first APM option is what you get when you enable APM in the kernel, the second APM option is at the bottom of the list, the Help text for it says that some buggy BIOSes require this setting (are you listening, ABIT?) HTH, Paul PS: I knew that auto-power off should work because Windows does... -- Paul Mackinney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
