Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > Please dismiss if this is irrelevant to the forum.
> > >
> > > On my Athlon 500/Microstar 6167 - machine, the power-off on shutdown
> > > does not work with 2.3.47 as it does with 2.2.13. Does anyone know why
> > > that is?
> >
> > Because you are using outdated technology! APM must die, die, die...
> >
> > Download and install acpid, and enable CONFIG_ACPI. Power-off on
> > shutdown will work beautifully. Forget about APM, you shouldn't use
> > such an old technology on such a nice new machine ;-)
>
> When did acpid start doing useful stuff? When I tried it, around 2.3.40
> time, the only notable effects where that enabling ACPI in the kernel
> prevented apmd from correcting the time after a suspend, and acpid
> prevented my laptop from suspending at all.
>
> Until that's changed, only APM is useful for me.
Hacking has definitely occurred since then. Power-off and idle (power
save) work fine for me, both on my desktop K6 and my laptop K6. I
haven't tested suspend... maybe you would be up to grabbing the latest
kernel and acpid, and testing suspend and resume?
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