[PLUG] Power off on shutdown: Slackware-9.1

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, AthlonRob wrote:

> I, personally, like ACPI, but APM is more tried-and-true.

  My older notebook doesn't do ACPI as far as I know.

> IIRC, modprobe apm and maybe loading apmd (although I don't know that that
> is required) allows the system to power itself down.

  I _thought_ apmd was running (on both the portable and the workstation),
but perhaps not. I had the impression that apm had something to do with it,
but I couldn't find where by reading the man page.

Thanks, Rob,

Rich

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