RE: [Devil-linux-develop] The Poweroff problem

[Dean N. <di...@ti...>]

Bruce Smith writes:
>> What about this:
>> We make APM a module and then people can turn it off in
>> /etc/sysconfig/config if they don't like to have it ?
>
>Yes, and I'd leave it off by default.
>I've heard of some PC's with buggy APM BIOS's.
>
> - BS

From what I was able to learn, the "solution" to most of those buggy APM's
is to use "real mode power down" which has the APM code switching from
protected mode to real mode before calling the APM function.

These means that we should indeed have it as a module, so that a user can
select either "power_off=1" or "real_mode_power_off=1".

Just my thoughts...

Dean Nedelman
TimeLord Consulting