-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 21 April 2003 00:42, Keith Powell wrote:
By putting acpi=off in the boot screen "options" command line, the computer switches off the next time I shut down. ... The SuSE manuals say that acpi and apm are for notebooks, but I have a desktop.
The primary purpose of APM/ACPI is indeed power management for notebooks, but along the way folks decided it would be useful for desktops too. As I understand it, APM is the older style of management, and I suspect that your desktop uses that instead of ACPI. As such, my desktop is of 1998/9 vintage [I think -- 466mhz celeron -- about time to upgrade :) ] and I noticed the other day that "shutdown" did indeed power off the system, so mine appearently supports ACPI "just fine" - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+pCCIV/YHUqq2SwsRArlCAJ43S60oyuJlmhaoorQrB9gpwhPE2gCeK5mK iiRnYr7GqZm7b3n8GOI2Gxg= =dS3k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----