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Date:      Mon, 03 Jun 2002 18:52:07 -0400
From:      Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
To:        "Pascal Giannakakis" <capm@gmx.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problem with "shutdown -p now"
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020603185052.00bd59b0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <001101c20b42$b568da50$0200a8c0@capm>

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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




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