Jim Bowering wrote:

> Andreas Janssen wrote:
>
>> Helo
>>
>> Jim Bowering (<iambat@otvcablelandot.net>) wrote:
>>
>>> I just installed MEPIS-Debian, using the 2.6.7 kernel. Now during
>>> boot there's a notice that "APM is being overriden by ACPI." That's
>>> okay, but now I can't get a software shutdown. It stops and says,
>>> "Power down."
>>>
>>> With APM shutdown works perfectly, so I want to disable ACPI. But
>>> putting acpi=off on the kernel line in grub doesn't do it and I can't
>>> find anything that looks like acpi in init.d or any of the rc*.ds.
>>> I'm out of places to look, so can anyone tell me how to disable acpi?
>>
>> Try to use acpi=off to switch off acpi, and add apm to /etc/modules, or
>> load it using modprobe. Probably, unlike ACPI, which is compiled into
>> the kernel, the apm driver is compiled as a module that needs to be
>> loaded.
>>
>> best regards
>> Andreas Janssen
>>
>
> The kernel line in grub has both apm=on and acpi=off. That's always
> worked
> with 2.4 kernels. APM is in /etc/modutils and /etc/rc*.d (except rcS.d).
> I'll add it to /etc/modules and see what happens.
>
No change. acpi is still overriding apm. Shutdown still goes only to
"power down" comment. "shutdown -r now" successfully reboots, though.
(Always has. Only complete shutdown fails.)

One of the comments in /var/log files says that it isn't doing acpi because
my MB is too old (1999), but it still overrides apm. I knew the MB was too
old, which is why I have to use apm. sigh.

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