Re: Annoyance : unable to shut the comptuer down with linux

[email protected] wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Steve wrote:
> 
> 
>>Linux is, as of yet unable to shut off your computer if you computer has 
>>newer hardware.
>>
>>Some uber geeks can do this by recompiling their kernel with the power 
>>management module
> 
> 
> This depends on the distro you use.
> 
> Red Hat's distro has supported this since at least 7.x, WITHOUT requiring
> the kernel to be recompiled.

This is a different issue.

Newer motherboards  have "outsourced" the power management functions to 
the OS.   Since power management is still new in linux many distros do 
not put this in.

Steve