Re: .129: APM poweroff still a no-go.

Thomas Molina (tmolina@probe.net)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:03:37 -0600 (EST)


I'm getting general protection faults with apm on .129. Where are the
apm patches you all are referencing?

System is TMC TI5VG+ with VIA MVP3 chipset and AMD K6-350.

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Alan Olsen wrote:

> On Nov 19, 10:49pm, <parse@salem.k12.va.us> wrote:
> > Subject: .129: APM poweroff still a no-go.
> > I booted my HP 5500CT laptop w/ .129, and poweroff on halt still didn't
> > power off. I _do_ get the 'Power down.' printk, but it stays on. I
> > double-checked that it wasn't an SMP kernel. With Steven Rothwell's APM
> > patch, it worked under .127. That looks like a pretty big patch for this
> > late in the game, but maybe poweroff could get fixed?
>
> I am having the same problem. It is a real annoyance.

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