No shutdown on command

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:33:12 -0800, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How do I get my machine to actually power off instead of just reaching
> > the point where it says "power down"! It's annoying to have to
> > physically turn the box off.
> 
> depends on the hardware in your machine.
> 
> In my case  I simply had to add the word "apm" to /etc/modules and
> that did the trick
> after the next reboot.  There was been a bunch of e-mails on the
> subject on this lists in the past.

I saw that the apm module worked for Dirk but I wanted to interject
that for my mother-in-law's old Gateway PC (Gateway GP-7-450) I had to
add acpi=force to the kernel prompt to make it shut down.