I gave Knoppix 6/6/03 a fresh run from the cdrom.

I didn't see any messages that mentioned apm or apci.

The guy at the computer store told me that intel is phasing out the bios and depending on the OS to take over those duties.

The motherboard I have is in the first stages of that transition in leaving power manaagement up to the OS.

Steve



Quote Originally Posted by rickenbacherus
Quote Originally Posted by beforewisdom
I saw in the "News" forum that the latest, greatest Knoppix 3.2 6/6/2003 has apm.

I had a friend download it for me. I tried it running from my cdrom. It is still not shutting my machine off.

Is there something I can adjust so that it can shut my machine off. A cheat code perhaps?

Thanks in advance

Steve
I am curious to know. When you boot the 6-6-03 release is there any indication that apm is working or enabled? When I boot that release it tells me "apm BIOS detected starting apmd". I'm just wondering really what the exact problem is- does it not recognize your BIOS as apm capable OR is the enhanced functionality of that BIOS causing the problem or.......?? I have Linux currently running on 4 machines none of which have issues powering down. You say halt and they halt. Of course I don't have anything anywhere new around here. :P