From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 17 7: 2:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E6837B636 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 07:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id PAA32949; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:02:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simond) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 15:02:07 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ESS Maestro not supported and no power switch. Message-ID: <20000817150206.B24296@irrelevant.org> References: <14747.60884.276585.256314@trooper.velocet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <14747.60884.276585.256314@trooper.velocet.net>; from dgilbert@velocet.ca on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:51:16AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message