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From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net>
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Subject: RE: how to enable auto power off
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> On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Charles Howse wrote:
>=20
> > OK, I just checked the BIOS, and it does have Power=20
> Management support,
> > and when I boot, I also see 'ACPI function enable' in the=20
> post msgs.  I
> > realize that ACPI is not supported in FBSD < 5.x.  I'm=20
> running 4.8-p4.
> >
> > I've never used Power Management on any of my computers, so=20
> this is new
> > territory for me.
> > I would assume that I need to set Power Management to=20
> 'enabled' in BIOS,
> > or no?
>=20
> No.  At least not on the machines I've set up lately.  You=20
> need 'device
> apm' (the hints have never been needed on my machines) and
> 'apm_enable=3D"YES"', but that's it.

I've recompiled with the proper lines in my kernel config and rc.conf,
and when I boot, I see:
apm: protected mode connections are not supported
And shutdown -p now does not power off the machine.

Should I assume that the BIOS does not support soft power off?=20