Automatic shutdown in Ubuntu
December 5th, 2004
When I ran Debian, the shutdown process would never power off my machine. The processor fan would stop and the screen would read “Power down”, leaving me to press the button. A minor irritant.
I had the same problem with Ubuntu, until yesterday evening. After reading a few forum posts which all seemed very involved and a bit disjointed, I added:
apm power_off=1
to /etc/modules
Now, Ubuntu powers down automatically. Hooray.
Categories: Free and open source software
That was it? Why isn’t this in Ubuntu by default, I wonder? File a bug?
Aq.
Looks as though this has been addressed for the next release, Hoary.