From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 17 7:10: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orbix.mobilix.dk (orbix.mobilix.dk [194.234.180.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B1BD37B649 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 07:09:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms04.mobilix.dk (ms04.mobilix.dk [172.16.1.24]) by orbix.mobilix.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA06008 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:09:50 +0200 Received: FROM ms07.mobilix.dk BY ms04.mobilix.dk ; Thu Aug 17 16:09:36 2000 +0100 Received: by ms07.mobilix.dk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <3M3FBHAB>; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:09:36 +0100 Message-ID: <2D3005375CAED31199D00008C784963F015D73CB@ms02.mobilix.dk> From: Morten Vinding Nielsen To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ESS Maestro not supported and no power switch. Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:09:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look in freebsd-mobile both things has been covered there recently. Apm has to be enabled in /etc/rc.conf also: apm_enable="YES" There is a beta version for the sound card (works perfect for me) :-) Morten -----Original Message----- From: simond@irrelevant.org [mailto:simond@irrelevant.org] Sent: 17. august 2000 15:02 To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ESS Maestro not supported and no power switch. 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