[ltp] Poweroff command doesn't work

[Tobias Kretschmer]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:26:08 -0500
Ajai Khattri <ajai@bitblit.net> wrote:

> Previously, I was running RH9 and the poweroff command worked just fine.
> 
> I have since moved to Gentoo and Im running a 2.4 kernel with APM 
> built-in. The power saving stuff mostly works but poweroff doesn't 
> actually powerdown the machine. Do I need to use ACPI for this or is 
> there an APM setting somewhere?


Would be nice to know which machine you're using. Building the kernel there's the APM-option "use real mode APM BIOS call to power off", that one is to be set for real poweroff.

Tobias

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