Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 17:35:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@datasyrge.net> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> Cc: FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: APM Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103081734270.11737-100000@equinox.datasyrge.net> In-Reply-To: <20010308162833.A388@cec.wustl.edu>
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Yea, The r series on Dell can be quite tricky, as they are the lowest priced machines on the market, which ideally doesn't make for a good server. The Dimension T's are much better for that, which is what I have both at home and at work. However, on a technical note, the r's just have bad hardware most of the time, with regards to FreeBSD anyways. So, I don't know what to say other than that. But, on the whole, Dell is a very good company. -- Jonathan M. Slivko On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Hello. > > I want to be able to use `shutdown -p now` to turn my machine off. > However, it does not work. At first, I had no apm device in the kernel, > so I added (from GENERIC): > > device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x20 > > This still did not work, so I tried each of the following, one at a > time: > > device apm0 > device apm0 at nexus? > device apm0 at nexus? flags 0x20 > > In all three cases, the kernel locks up right after it loads the md > driver, which I gather means it is trying to load the apm driver. Once I > tried this with debugging symbols, and ddb, and anything else I could > think of, but nothing works. It just freezes completely. > > I have a Dell Dimension L733r with a Phoenix (I believe) BIOS, revision > A07. The system includes the i810 chipset. > > Has anybody gotten APM to work on a similar machine? What good does the > disable flag do? It seems to just disable apm, which is pointless, > because I can just as easily remove the device line. Finally, is there > any other way to get `shutdown -p` working like I want it to? > -- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Jonathan M. Slivko <jslivko@datasyrge.net> | | Global IRC Operator, AsylumNet IRC Networks | | Systems Administrator, DataSyrge Internet Svces. | | Webpage: http://jslivko.datasyrge.net/ | | | | Come and check out AsylumNet: irc.asylum-net.org!| |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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