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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:02:07 +0100
From:      simond@irrelevant.org
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ESS Maestro not supported and no power switch.
Message-ID:  <20000817150206.B24296@irrelevant.org>
In-Reply-To: <14747.60884.276585.256314@trooper.velocet.net>; from dgilbert@velocet.ca on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:51:16AM -0400
References:  <14747.60884.276585.256314@trooper.velocet.net>

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On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:51:16AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> Recently, I got a good deal on a new laptop and I have found that a
> fair amount of it's hardware is well supported.  There remain two
> naggling bits:
> 
> The other is that there is no "off" switch on the laptop.  Yes, I have 
> examined and tried many BIOS settings and tried several combinations
> of things, but there appears to be no off button.
> 
> Is there code (or a patch) to cause FreeBSD to shut off the power
> apm-wise when a halt is finished?

If your kernel currently has apm compiled in then just try using 
shutdown -p now rather than -h, it may work on your setup, doesn't on
mine :/

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org


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