Shutdown

[Bill Stoye]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 15:36 -0500, rolf wrote:
> [quote:2c6f4632b8="skiffworks at earthlink.n"]On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 09:48 -0500, rolf wrote:
> > [quote:5fe51afc55="rolf"][quote:5fe51afc55="cenerentola at despammed."]when i try to shutdown it just unmounts all the fs's and kill all the
> > processes correctly but it doesnt turn off the power.[/quote:5fe51afc55]
> >
> > I have the same issue on my Dell Latitude CPx (laptop) and a homebrew desktop at home.[/quote:5fe51afc55]
> >
> > Ah, quoting myself here.  Here is the solution that works for me:
> >
> > add the word "apm" to the end of the /etc/modules.
> >
> > A quick search here on 'shutdown' brought me to [url]http://ubuntuforums.org/viewtopic.php?t=65&highlight=shutdown[/url] which has the solution I mention.  Tested on my laptop and worked as advertised.  I did not have to modify my kernel cmdline.
> >
> 
> What is this?: [quote:5fe51afc55="rolf"][quote:5fe51afc55="cenerentola
> at despammed."]
> 
> When I 'Reply to All' it doesn't. ??
> 
> Bill[/quote:2c6f4632b8]
> 
> Just guessing here, but appears that you are trying to view the BBCode markup in a non-BBCode enabled app - such as email perhaps?  The code snippet in question is the BBCode markup for quoting.
> 
> HTH.

I'm not trying to view it, it does arrive in my email, had me wondering;
no great trick. 

Thanks for your explanation.
Bill


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