From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 21 04:06:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B30016A401 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:06:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA7A43D49 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:06:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2L45C7r062677; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:05:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <441F7B6B.3030206@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:04:59 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Fitzgerald References: <7e6edc4c961db1f296c1a3d995129635@pacific.net.au> In-Reply-To: <7e6edc4c961db1f296c1a3d995129635@pacific.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:06:20 -0000 Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > When I log out and select "Turn off the computer" it shuts > down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying > this message: > > "The operating system has halted. > Please press any key to reboot." > > Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have > to hold the power button down for several seconds to > get a forced power-off or pull the plug. > > How do I setup BSD so that the command at the login > panel turns the machine off? > > Malcolm It might be helpful to mention your windowing system, but I doubt that it will make a lot of difference. Most likely, FreeBSD doesn't "grok" your system's ACPI. What does "uname -a" say? (Let's establish your OS version first). Do you have any references to "ACPI" in your system's boot message? (you can look in /var/run/dmesg.boot). What does kldstat(8) show? Is "acpi.ko" loaded? It is quite possible, if you are running a relatively recent release on an older machine, that ACPI support is intentionally disabled for your motherboard because FreeBSD considers the system's BIOS/ACPI to be "broken". If this is the case, I'm not sure if the situation can be corrected, or not. The good news: sometimes it is possible to tell the system what kind of ACPI support you need, and have it loaded at boot-time; the bad news: some motherboards/BIOS will never be supported, there simply won't be enough programmer time to devote to all the whims of every chipset designer who's been allowed to release a product. Kevin Kinsey -- Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin. -- Adolf Hitler