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Subject: Re: shutdown and power-off
In-Reply-To: <20010525101648.B57030@Space.Net> from Martin Hasenbein at "May 25, 2001 10:16:48 am"
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	Try apmconfig first and then just apm.  See if it says that apm is enabled.  Then try
shutdown -p now.  If it is still a no go, there is probably a setting in your BIOS that is
expecting your OS to be able to use APM features found only in windows as of now.  You need to
shut this option off.

Ian

As told by, Martin Hasenbein
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Hi,
> 
> does anyone know how to configure FreeBSD to shutdown
> and auto-power-off? I already compiled device	apm0
> into the kernel and put apm_enable="YES" and apmd_enable="YES"
> into rc.conf. I enabled PM by APM in the BIOS. When I do
> a shutdowm -p now the computer goes down, but it doesn't
> power off. Does anyone know how to do it right? Did I miss
> something?
> 
> \thx\martin
> 
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