Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:52:11 +0100 From: "Lee" <lee@unassemble.co.uk> To: "Jordi YC" <jordi_yc@lycos.es> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Automatically Switching of the PC when running "halt -p" Message-ID: <005601c21965$84111ae0$6400a8c0@Administrator> References: <003901c21941$1a777440$6400a8c0@Administrator> <3D138DB3.2020209@lycos.es>
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Hi,
I have got it working now.
Once I found out that it was not installed in the GENERIC kernel and new
where to go. Here is a summary of the steps I did
1. Recompiled and installed new kernel, removing the word "disabled" from
the line beginning" device apm0"
2. added the following line to rc.conf:
apm_enable="YES"
3. Rebooted, ran "shutdown -p". PC shutdown very nicely.
I hope that these steps help anyone. To be honest I cannot take credit for
this myself, I searched the archived and found them on a post from Pascal
Giannakakis, so thanks go to him.
Original post is available from
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=72463+74894+/usr/local/www/db/te
xt/2002/freebsd-questions/20020616.freebsd-questions
Lee.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jordi YC" <jordi_yc@lycos.es>
To: "Lee" <lee@unassemble.co.uk>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: Automatically Switching of the PC when running "halt -p"
> Lee,
>
> What computer do you have? Or better yet, does your BIOS support APM or
> is ACPI?
> Yes you need APM enabled to power off.
>
> I have an only ACPI BIOS that will not power off because there is no
> support for ACPI in 4.6 (well it doesn't work either in 5.0 current
> because of Sony Propietary implementation of the ACPI)
>
> Lee wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know if FreeBSD-4.6 is configured out of the box to
> > automatically shutdown the PC when the "halt -p" command is issues.
> >
> > I have ensured that APM is enabled, not sure if this makes any
> > difference though.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Lee
>
>
>
>
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>
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