Re: Power off

From: Frank Hrebabetzky (frankh_at_terra.com.br)
Date: 08/31/03

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To: Z F <mail4me9999@yahoo.com>

    On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Z F wrote:

    All I want from power management is switching off at the end, but I don't
    know if APM or ACPI is preferable for that. My experience so far shows:
    1. ACPI compiled into kernel: no power off
    2. APM compiled into kernel: system hangs at boot

    Please see my next posting about that.

    > do you know if you have APM or ACPI ?
    >
    > Maybe you are compiling a wrong power manager into the kernel. Whether
    > you have APM or ACPI depends on you BIOS. If you do not have ACPI
    > option when you run make menuconfig see if you enabled
    >
    > "Prompt for development/incomplete drivers" in code maturity
    > level option.
    >
    > Try enabling ACPI if you have not done so.

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