Power-off trivia

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:14:55AM -0400, phil wrote:
> I'm in the process of moving a machine from SuSE 8.1 to Debian (2.6.8 
> kernel) and it's generally going well, but one feature that I'd taken 
> for granted isn't happening and I have no idea where to look next.  
> When I told the old installation to shut down, it did.  With the new 
> one, it runs through the shutdown messages, prints out "Power down." 
> and sits there.  (I tried substituting 'poweroff' for 'halt' in the KDE 
> shutdown settings, but with no change in result.)  Oddly, I hear a kind 
> of click (?) from the box as if something was *trying* to power it 
> down, but....

Power off requires apm or apci.  Depending on which one your bios
supports of course.  I don't think debian enables it by default,
although it may also just depend on your hardware.

How old is the machine?  Does the BIOS have anything about APM or APCI?

Lennart Sorensen
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