APM support for Pavilion 8776 (1GHz Athlon)

Dave Kristol — Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:18:05 GMT

I'm running RH 7.1 on my Pavilion 8776 (1GHz Athlon) does not power off when I run "poweroff". The console displays "Power off", but the system remains on.

If I run "apm -s", I get the diagnostic "No APM BIOS". If I rebuild the kernel to ensure that APM (advanced power management) has been enabled, I still get the same result.

Is this just a case of HP using a non-standard APM BIOS, or is there something I should be doing that I haven't done?

Thanks
Dave Kristol

Re: APM support for Pavilion 8776 (1GHz Athlon)

Kodjo Agbenu — Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:12:50 GMT

Hello Dave,

You can try 2 different things :

1) In the setup, look for something that looks like APM BIOS. If you don't find any, make sure that the O/S compatibility is "Linux" or "Other" but neither Windows 2000 nor Me.

2) It may be possible that your PC BIOS is no more supporting APM, but ACPI which is a newer standard for power management. Therefore, you have to configure your Linux Kernel with ACPI support. However, I don't know exactly how it is configured. Read documentation about ACPI in Linux kernel source documentation tree.

Good luck.

Kodjo

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