Re: [PATCH] APM power off

Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
Wed, 03 Mar 1999 01:11:37 +1100


Hi Walter,

Walter Hofmann <Walter.Hofmann@physik.stud.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
>
> I made a patch to the APM power off routines which switches to real mode
> before attempting to power off the computer. This makes APM power off work
> on my computer (Gigabyte motherboard & AWARD BIOS).

Thanks for the patch, I will take a look.

However, the bad news is that (according to Nils Philippsen) Gigabyte
have a new BIOS that fixes this on some boards! :-)

Cheers,
Stephen

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