From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 10:51:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA02905 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:51:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (elf.kendall.mdcc.edu [147.70.150.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02899 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:51:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from freelist@localhost) by elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA01218; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:31:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:31:56 -0500 (EST) From: Don Whiteside To: Joerg Wunsch cc: francis yeung , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: automatic power down at shutdown In-Reply-To: <199601062040.VAA16210@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 6 Jan 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As francis yeung wrote: > > Can BSD 2.x do an automatic power down (Pentium PC) > > at "shutdown" ? Microsoft Win95 can do an automatic > > power down the machine. > > > > What do I have to do to achieve the same effect ? > > Tell us about the hardware port that's involved. Sounds like an Advanced Power Management thing to me. Anyone have a URL for an information site that's worth looking at?