Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:56:03 -0400 From: nawcom <nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Power Off with ATX board won't work... Message-ID: <42FB6703.6080806@nawcom.no-ip.com>
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does your computer use acpi instead of apm? if so add $acpi_load to your loader.conf file, and comment out the apm line in your kernel config file. I got a cheap 366 cyrix box and that does the job for me. -Ben Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Christian Tischler wrote: > >> Hi, >> my FreeBSD 4.9 box (old, but rock solid, and as there are no security >> concerns I do not intend to update it) has to be shut down every night >> to reduce energy costs. But after shutdown is complete I get the "hit >> any button to reboot" or so screen, but the atx power supply does not >> turn off. This is rather anoying. I have compiled in all the relevant >> stuff into the kernel but somehow I have missed something and google was >> not very helpfull, too. >> >> My question would be what I could have missed, and if this could be a >> hardeware problem? It is an old 1.xGhz amd box, so nothing fancy here. > > > > Do you have apm_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and 'device apm' in your > kernel config? > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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