David Woodhouse (dwmw2@infradead.org) wrote:
> ik5pvx@penny.ik5pvx.ampr.org said:
> > My system doesn't power down any more. I _think_ that the behaviour
> > changed since I compiled in ACPI support.
> I posted a patch a few weeks ago which would try all possible power-off
> methods in order of preference, so that you don't have to give up on the APM
> poweroff just because CONFIG_ACPI was enabled.
I looked through acpi.c, and it seems to me that ACPI power-off support
has not yet been written for linux. If so, then it seems to me that the
appropriate patch would be something like:
--- arch/i386/config.in Sun Feb 20 20:37:09 2000
+++ arch/i386/config.in.new Sat Mar 4 13:06:17 2000
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
source drivers/parport/Config.in
-bool 'ACPI support' CONFIG_ACPI
+bool 'ACPI support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_ACPI
if [ "$CONFIG_ACPI" != "n" ]; then
if [ "CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then
bool ' Enter S1 for sleep (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_ACPI_S1_SLEEP
--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu
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