Power-off trivia

[Tim Writer]

phil <phillip-l+pbsqP8NtUm29vl6s1fFg at public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Aug 9, 2005, at 11:57 AM, William O'Higgins wrote:
> 
> > Try "apt-get install apmd" that may just take care of it for you.
> 
> That did it.  Thank you.

You don't need apmd just to be able to power down, you need only load the apm
kernel module. Installing apmd likely did this for you but that's overkill.
Just do this:

    # echo apm >> /etc/modules

Then you can also:

    # apt-get --purge remove apmd

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