Re: Re: [Mailinglist] ACPI poweroff

"Mahesh T. Pai" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.region.india.fsug-kochi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
RS Chakravarti said on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 04:54:34AM +0000,:

 > Debian Sarge apparently switches off the SMPS on shutdown
 > (leaving the system ready to start on pressing the
 > start button)

You  need  the  apm  OR  acpi modules  loaded.  Usually  the  hardware
detection scripts which  run during install process do  it for you. If
they fail, please use the command `modconf' as root, (from a console /
xterm)   and   load    the   modules   from   /kernel/drivers/apm   or
/kernel/driver/acpi menu.

 > but Woody didn't; there was no change in the sound.

Default 2.2 kernel of woody did  not have (AFAICT) apm or acpi support
( I  may be wrong).  But if you  installed woody using bf24  option at
install time, powersaving mode worked. 

 > I would like to understand this.
 > Is it the SMPS or something else?

It all depends on loading  appropriate kernl module. Since the name of
moduls varies between 2.4 and  2.6 Kernels, and depends on whether you
use apm or the more advanced acpi, better information about the kernel
(not distro) is required.
 
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