Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 14:42:16 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.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: <20010308144216.B9110@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010308162833.A388@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:28:33PM -0600 References: <20010308162833.A388@cec.wustl.edu>
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--bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:28:33PM -0600, Andrew Hesford wrote: > 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): >=20 > device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x20 >=20 > This still did not work, so I tried each of the following, one at a > time: >=20 > device apm0 > device apm0 at nexus? > device apm0 at nexus? flags 0x20 This last one is the right one for most people. > 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. >=20 > I have a Dell Dimension L733r with a Phoenix (I believe) BIOS, revision > A07. The system includes the i810 chipset. Given that it's a desktop system, it's quite likey you have a screwed APM BIOS since they don't put much (read any) work into testing APM on desktops. You might try a BIOS upgrade. You should also veryify that APM is really on in the BIOS. I've certaintly seen services (usually PS/2 mice) probe while disabled. > 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? The disable flag disables APM. It's there becase many systems like your's hang if APM is used, but some people want to just use userconfig to enable APM with their GENERIC kernel rather then recompiling. I don't know of any other way to get shutdown -p to work, unfortunatly. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6qArIXY6L6fI4GtQRAn1KAJ9DW8cvUrRkGf9scz8MyZJ1qA6P0wCdFIFJ fep/PH4wNB+If+dcLMIspK8= =u95R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bCsyhTFzCvuiizWE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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