[Users] Is there no kernel for i586 CPUs?

[Marcin Owsiany]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:54:53AM +0100, lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de wrote:
> Zitat von Adem <for-gmane at alicewho.com>:
>> when doing "shutdown -h now" it although halts the machine
>> but unfortunately does not power off the machine.
>> Bug or feature? :-)
>
> Some features are lacking because no one ported it back. Maybe this module 
> use high-res timer or the like. For the power-off : Back in the days of 
> i486 the power-supply has no soft-off (ATX) but only a manual switch (AT) 
> and i guess most of the others ACPI functions are missing as well on a 
> typical i486 board from these days.

It might just be that you need to load "apm" module.

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