[wellylug] Problem powering off an ATX system

David Antliff dave.antliff at paradise.net.nz
Tue Jan 11 11:25:10 NZDT 2005


On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Nigel Roberts wrote:
> I used to have this problem with an older ATX board. To get around it,
> I enabled the "Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off" option under
> APM in the kernel config. I don't know if this will fix it in your
> case, or even if you want recompile to kernel, but it might be worth a
> try.

On a related note, ACPI power off doesn't work on my (newish) ATX system 
any more. No idea why - it just reboots instead of powering down when I 
type 'init 0' or 'shutdown -h now'. I haven't changed the kernel (or 
anything really, including the BIOS).

Odd eh?

-- 
David.




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