Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [0.6Beta1] One more bug to report...

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>Agree, it should be added, IF it's not already there. (it may be)
>>>
>>>Keep in mind that even Redhat (and others) will NOT power off machines
>>>for certain types of hardware.  i.e. SMP boxes will not power off.
>>>I'm not sure what happens if you're running a SMP kernel on a UP PC.
>>
>>I was thinking for a while if we should enable the power management stuff.
>>Since you both agree with it, let's do it.
> 
> 
> Let's think about this a little harder.  Are other power management
> features going to cause us problems?  Causing a PC to go into sleep mode
> would be bad.  We need to be really careful on what features we select.
> 
> Can we turn on just the power off feature?

I love Linux !
I did some research on the web and of course Linux doesn't do anything 
without being told so. We just need to enable the APM feature in the 
Kernel, then we should be set. There won't be any spindowns or so.

Heiko