Kernel problems.

[Toby Fisher]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Thomas Ward wrote:

> Hi, list. I was hoping someone here has the answer to this problem. I've
> just built a 2.4.18 kernel with speakup, but it doesn't power my machine
> down like it is suppose to.I've tried turning on and of different apm
> options in the kernel config, and nothing has worked. Can someone tell me
> exactly  what options are required to get Linux to properly shutdown and
> turn off my computer?
> The stock kernels do it fine, but my kernel won't do it.

As I recall, unless you have a broken bios you just need to enable apm
support and it should work, if you read the help for each option, it'll
tell you.  I enabled a couple more options for my laptop but that was for
apmd functionality and stuff.

Cheers.

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