Power-off trivia

[William Park]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:39:05AM -0400, phil wrote:
> On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> >How old is the machine?  Does the BIOS have anything about APM or APCI?
> 
> About 6 years old: Dell Dimension XPS B733.  Flipping through the BIOS 
> setup screens, all I see in power management is power saving options 
> for fan, HD, video...no reference to the acronyms you mention.
> 
> (In case it sheds any light, the SuSE system that was OK with shutting 
> down this same computer featured kernel version 2.4.21.)

Poweroff requires APM or ACPI.  See if there is 'apm' or 'acpi' in
/proc.  If not, load kernel module.

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