Power-off trivia

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:39:05AM -0400, phil wrote:
> 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.

Ah Dell, the makers of the least standards compliant PCs ever.

Also the people selling a 20" 1600x1050 FP monitor for $600 today
(regular 950).  I wish I could justify it.

> (In case it sheds any light, the SuSE system that was OK with shutting 
> down this same computer featured kernel version 2.4.21.)

If it is 6 years old it is almost certainly APM.  Try loading the apm
module (stick apm in /etc/modules) or modprobe apm, and see if poweroff
works properly then.

Len
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