Puppy 4.3 APM won't power off [solved]

[Okeh]

This did not work on my ancient NEC desktop with AMD K6-2 processor, 256 megs of ram. I checked the bios and found that APM was not enabled. So I enabled that, but still would not fully shut down. Adding apm=on did the trick.

Its running 4.3.1.

This computer came with Windows 98, and when I upgraded it to Windows 2000 the shutdown problem started. Obviously an acpi/apm issue under windows too.

[Laie]

... Adding apm=on did the trick ...

Where did you add "apm=on"? In the menu.lst? Which line?
My old Medion MD96067 won't shut down, stops but leaves the screen on with the last line saying "Power down". The BIOS ist very, very simple and has no option to turn apm on or off.

[Okeh]

Where did you add "apm=on"? In the menu.lst? Which line?

I added it in the menu.1st file. Its a startup parameter or switch for "puppy".

I kept the rc.sysnit change as well, because after my last posting, removing it after the other changes caused the computer to hang again. So it seems - for some reason - I need to enable apm in the bios, use apm=on and use [ ! -d /proc/acpi ] && modprobe apm power_off=1 #v406 since none of them worked independently of the other! I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than I will tell me this can't be so!