From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 17 11:39:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC4B37B401; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:39:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from english-breakfast.cloud9.net (english-breakfast.cloud9.net [168.100.1.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B616943E42; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:39:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by english-breakfast.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1953C26F42; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:38:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from english-breakfast.cloud9.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (VaMailArmor-2.0.1.7) id 37517-7BBE7724; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:38:59 -0500 Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by english-breakfast.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD24926F1E; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:38:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 14:38:58 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> X-X-Sender: pete@earl-grey.cloud9.net To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein <q@uni.de>, FreeBSD LIST <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Power off problem In-Reply-To: <3DD7E0FA.2080808@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20021117143635.I80685-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.7; VAE: 6.16.0.0; VDF: 6.16.0.17; host: english-breakfast.cloud9.net) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: <freebsd-questions.FreeBSD.ORG> List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive) List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-questions> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-questions> X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Ulrich 'Q' Spoerlein wrote: > > halt -p or shutdown -p now > ... does indeed not work on a lot of modern systems. All my athlon boxes > here will only poweroff with 5-CURRENT, thanks to acpi-support there. > Michael Nottebrock > "And the reasons? There are no reasons." There was another post about having to recompile the kernel as well as add apmd_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf by the way. I am also on Athlon (FreeBSD 4.6.2), on a home-built box with a MicroStar MS-6167 motherboard. Isn't there some important jumper on the board to enable powering off via software rather than having to press the button?? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message