From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 17 8:22:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mag.ik.nu (mail.olm.nl [194.151.118.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6020037B694 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 08:22:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ralphm@localhost) by mag.ik.nu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA78969 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:10:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ralphm) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 17:10:40 +0200 From: Ralph Meijer To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESS Maestro not supported and no power switch. Message-ID: <20000817171039.A78787@mag.ik.nu> References: <14747.60884.276585.256314@trooper.velocet.net> <20000817150206.B24296@irrelevant.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000817150206.B24296@irrelevant.org>; from simond@irrelevant.org on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:02:07PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 03:02:07PM +0100, simond@irrelevant.org wrote: > 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 :/ > Besides enabling apm in the kernel you must also put the line apm_enable="YES" in your /etc/rc.conf If, by any chance your laptop is an HP OmniBook 4150 you should try to hold the 'stand-by' button for like 5 seconds. Furthermore there is a small hole on the left side where you can insert a paperclip to shutdown the machine. And the soundcard: well it is kinda supported bij OSS drivers, which really suck (at least in my configuration) and the soundcard has a few issues itself according to the readme of the OSS driver (like not being able to play stereo 16 bit mp3s. Greetz, Ralphm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message