Wednesday, July 26, 2006

How to make your ATX machine automatically shutting down on Linux

For some ATX machine, it may cannot automatically shutting down on Linux. How to fix this ?

(1) Find a file name rc.modules
(2) You can find this file by typing a command :

locate rc.modules

(3) Edit that file with this command :

vi rc.modules

(4) Find a row containing "/sbin/modprobe apm"
(5) If there is a comment "#", uncomment that or delete the "#" sign on that row
(6) Rebooting your machine to test an effect.

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