About ACPI and APIC -power off problem.

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Filippos,

> I would suggest to remove the apm=on line from the kernel arguments.
> It
> instructs the
> kernel to turn off ACPI and turn on APM but if APM is not supported
> in the
> BIOS then nothing
> will happen as you see the /proc/apm directory is not created.

I tried it before with no improvement.  PC still can't be power-off.

Anyway I'll remove it because it has no function at all.

B.R.
SL



> 
> On 4/26/06, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > # poweroff
> > and
> > # shutdown -h now
> >
> > oly halted the system but not power off
> >
> >
> > I ran following test.
> >
> > # cat /etc/grub/grub.conf
> > .......
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> noapic
> > apm=on quiet
> > .......
> >
> > # modprobe acpi
> > No printout
> >
> > # modprobe apm
> > FATAL: Module apm not found.
> >
> > # cat /proc/acpi
> > cat: /proc/acpi: No such file or directory
> >
> > # cat /proc/apm
> > cat: /proc/apm: No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > Any advice?  TIA
> >
> > B.R.
> > SL