Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:49:36 -0700 (MST) From: Colin Eric Johnson <colinj@cs.unm.edu> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM power-off code Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9901131448430.17021-100000@shiva.cs.unm.edu> In-Reply-To: <369C0195.2DE70CB3@acm.org>
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On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Nate suggested I forward this to "mobile@freebsd.org". > These are some patches I've used with both 2.2.5 and 2.2.8. > They modify the shutdown code to actually turn off > power on a system shutdown. I personally use it > with my desktop machine; I find it quite convenient > to type "shutdown" and walk away knowing that the > machine will, in fact, turn itself off when it's > done cleaning up. > > - Tim Kientzle > > P.S. This is probably not the best approach. It > might be better to add a "register_poweroff_func()" > function to kern_shutdown, and have the APM code > register a power off function if an APM BIOS was > found. > > P.P.S. I don't watch these lists, so email is > best: kientzle@acm.org Any chance this might get folded into the next release of FreeBSD (like 3.1)? Colin E. Johnson | colinj@unm.edu | http://www.unm.edu/~colinj/ "Accordions don't play Lady of Spain -- People Do!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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