Re: APM poweroff

Thomas Molina (tmolina@home.com)
Sun, 26 Dec 1999 09:25:10 -0600 (CST)


On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Your BIOS is buggy. Windows returns to real mode before calling
> the APM BIOS power off routine. Linux normally does not (and should
> not need to). Complain to your MB manfacturer (first see if there is
> an updated BIOS on their web site). We have managed to get this fixed
> in some BIOS's.

TMC seems particularly uninterested in fixing this. I have a TMC TI5VG+
motherboard with an MVP3 chipset, which I like in most respects. I
emailed them several times and talked on the phone twice. When I
finally got an answer it boiled down to we'll look into it, but it works
in Windows.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/