Poweroff not working on RedHat 7.1

[Andreas Bauer]

> My power off function is broken.
>
> [racer.1060]# grep APM .config
> CONFIG_APM=y
> CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND=y
> CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
> CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
> CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
> CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
> # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
> # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

No idea what machine we're dealing with here, but if it's a problem related 
to your hardware (i.e. BIOS), then you should change the last line to:

  CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y

You might have to recompile the kernel, if this option is not available. I 
don't know for sure.

Andi.

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