Re: apm system does not power off anymore

[Olaf Hering]

On Sun, Oct 14, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:54:26 +0200 Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know what is required to power off an old PIII 400mhz
> > system? At some point (2.6.18 I think), apm=power-off was required with
> > an SMP kernel. Now with 2.6.22 and 2.6.23, even that does not work
> > anymore.
> 
> We break old machines at an unacceptably high (IMO) rate and then don't
> fix them.  Please, bisect it?

CONFIG_APM was changed from =y to =m.
'modprobe -v apm power_off=1'  fixed it.
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