From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 12 8: 4:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B193637B69E for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:04:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.143]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09674; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:04:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA09364; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:04:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09360; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:04:00 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac3.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 11:04:00 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Zhiui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Power off Dell Inspiron 5000 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You probably have the apm line, but it's disabled.. on the GENERIC line, set it to enable, then try again. By the way, can you send me the output of a dmesg? ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > Can I power off a Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop with shutdown -p now? I have > added apm_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and "device apm0" is already in > GENERIC file. I also run ./MAKEDEV apm under /dev. But When I run "apm", > it says "device not configured". I am using 4.2-Release. Thanks for your > help. > > -Zhihui > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message