From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 15 00:54:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA11E16A4BF for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:54:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx04.covadmail.net [63.65.120.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D35B343FB1 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 12069 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2003 07:54:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ice.nodomain) (68.164.192.86) by sun-qmail18 with SMTP; 15 Sep 2003 07:54:00 -0000 Received: from ice.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8F7s404000364; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:54:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@ice.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h8F7s4nP000363; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:54:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200309150754.h8F7s4nP000363@ice.nodomain> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: dan@ice.nodomain cc: keshav_tadimeti@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: How to turn off FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:54:07 -0000 >> > I have a problem turning off my computer after > shutting down FreeBSD. I use 4.5. When I get the > prompt to press any key to continue, I have to "turn > off" the computer 3-5 times. >> Normally there is no special trick to it. You just push the power button. There seems to be some way, probably described in the ACPI standard that I have never read, that the OS can do it on modern machines. My new PC BIOS can allegedly be configured to require that the power button be held down for 4 seconds before it turns off, otherwise it just goes to "sleep". I don't enable that feature, but I do find that when the system is in the "press any key to continue" halted state it seems to ignore the power button. So I press any key and let it reset and start to reboot. Then the power button works. This is indeed a little annoying. I would like to understand why it does this. Dan Strick strick@covad.net