Re: tlug: apm and atx

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Uc^ida Masatomo wrote:

> Hello, everybody.
> 
> Before Scott answers, I'll answer.
> 
> > I really don't know about the atx spec.
> > But, it has apm bios. It can be turned off by windows as notebooks
> > can. Also I have seen Linux can turn off notebooks. So my question is
> > why Linux can't turn off atx based desktop pc featuring apm bios when
> > I do "shutdown -h now".
> Why don't you try Turbo-Linux? I've tried a couple of packages.
> Turbo-Linux Lite supports apm.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

According to the original message, the kernel was already seeing the APM
bios, but ATX motherboards must have some differences from pure APM as
used in notebooks.

PS - we took the APM out of the kernel after TurboLinux 1.0, since Linux's
APM is somewhat unstable and will lock up some machines, esp. Compaqs.
I'm considering making separate, downloadable kernel RPMs with APM
compiled in, that you can install into your TL 2.0 system and add APM
support.  Too bad it can't be built as a module, though.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
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