Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:13:41 -0500 (EST) From: Marco Radzinschi <marco@radzinschi.com> To: Vidor Demeter <vidor@home.se> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Power off problem Message-ID: <20021117111029.J5673-100000@radzinschi.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01c28e49$7a710820$0200a8c0@amd1800>
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Vidor Demeter wrote: > Hi all, > > I used to be a SuSE user but I've decided to install FreeBSD instead, which > I do not regret. > I had some great surprises compared to Linux, and I've decided to stay with > FreeBSD! :-) > So I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I will have some questions until I get the > system run after my > whishes. The first problem is that I can not manage to configure the system > shutdown with > power off option. I've compiled the kernel with the apm option and I changed > the rc.conf > file as well, with ' apm_enable="YES" ', but no luck. After the shutdown I > have to power > off the system with the Power Off button! :-( > I can not find any further help on this but what I described here. Did I > missed something? > I have an AMD 1800+ XP CPU, with 256MB RAM and 40GB HD, Asus mobo. > Can somebody help me ? > TIA Vidor You need apmd_enable="YES" in rc.conf, and you need to recompile the kernel. There is a line in the kernel config file that reads device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x20 Delete the disable, rebuild kernel, and reboot. If apmd is running, which the apmd_enable line should take care of, it should work. Marco Radzinschi E-Mail: marco@radzinschi.com Sun Nov 17 11:10:29 EST 2002 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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