[plug] Power down

[Cameron Patrick]

James Devenish wrote:

| on Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:44:09PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
| > either compile yourself a kernel with apm and/or acpi support; or
| > install an appropriate precompiled Debian kernel for your
| > architecture,
| 
| If I recall correctly, we already went through a large amount of list
| e-mail subsequent to the installation of a non-bf kernel-image package.

Fair enough, you're probably right.  (I wasn't sure whether this was the
same person and/or he'd actually ended up getting that kernel
installed.)

Still, if APM is involved somewhere, installing apmd is probably
worthhile; I think that the kernel doesn't enable APM unless you
actually have a daemon doing evil stuff to it.  ACPI seems to power down
without having acpid running, but acpid can do cool stuff like making
the power button shut the machine down rather than just switching off
the power immediately.

Cameron.