Re: Power off a SMP Box

Stephen Rothwell (sfr@canb.auug.org.au)
Fri, 3 Jan 2003 02:03:58 +1100

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:53:50 +0100 Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch> wrote:
>
> My "problem" is that my Dual-Box won't power off itself after a shutdown.

Has it ever? What kernel version are you trying this on?

> I tried with
>
> apm=smp-power-off //no effect
> apm=power-off //this one oopses on boot

This second should work on any kernel since early 2000.

However, there are many SMP machines that cannot be powered off
using APM. APM is not defined for SMP machines, and the result
you got is why APM is not enabled easily on SMP boxes.

> Has someone a hint for me?

You could try ACPI in (very) recent kernels.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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