Power-off trivia

[Howard Gibson]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:22:12 -0400
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:14:55AM -0400, phil wrote:
> 
> 
> 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,

   I now have Fedora Core 3 running on my six or seven year old PII/350.  When it boots, I get a message claiming something like my BIOS out too out of date to run ACPI.  I have been meaning to investigate this sometime.  

   My machine powers off when I tell it too.  

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