From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 20 11:53:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA10221 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:53:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from red.juniper.net (red.juniper.net [208.197.169.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA10214 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:53:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tli@juniper.net) Received: from chimp.juniper.net (chimp.juniper.net [208.197.169.196]) by red.juniper.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07482 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:53:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tli@localhost) by chimp.juniper.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) id TAA28811; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:53:12 GMT To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM power-off code References: <369C0195.2DE70CB3@acm.org> From: Tony Li Date: 20 Jan 1999 19:53:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: kientzle@acm.org's message of 13 Jan 99 02:14:45 GMT Message-ID: <82g1953emv.fsf@chimp.juniper.net> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > These are some patches I've used with both 2.2.5 and 2.2.8. > They modify the shutdown code to actually turn off > power on a system shutdown. I personally use it > with my desktop machine; I find it quite convenient > to type "shutdown" and walk away knowing that the > machine will, in fact, turn itself off when it's > done cleaning up. I've got a possibly related question: On a Sony Vaio 505G running PAO, a reboot never actually gets you back to the BIOS. The system just seems to go into a spin loop and you have to manually do an emergency power off... Has anyone got a fix for this? Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message