From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 3 15:52:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B90737B404 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 15:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scott1.nyc.rr.com (66-108-170-19.nyc.rr.com [66.108.170.19]) by nycsmtp3out.rdc-nyc.rr.com (8.12.1/Road Runner SMTP Server 1.0) with ESMTP id g53MqgPX014052; Mon, 3 Jun 2002 18:52:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020603185052.00bd59b0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 18:52:07 -0400 To: "Pascal Giannakakis" , From: Scott Subject: Re: Problem with "shutdown -p now" In-Reply-To: <001101c20b42$b568da50$0200a8c0@capm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 23:07 2002/06/03 +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: >Hello, > >i have a problem with shutting down my freebsd machine. I want it to turn >power off on "shutdown -p now", but it will only halt and tell me to press >any key to reboot. Any idea what could be wrong? ACPI is enabled in BIOS. >The board is MSI MS-6368. This is what fixed for me. In /etc/rc.conf add apm_enable="YES" In your kernel, you'll see a line about apm0 and somewhere in the middle of the line the word disabled. Remove the word disabled, recompile the kernel and you should be good to go. HTH Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message