From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 00:25:48 2004 Return-Path: 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 448B716A4CF for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:25:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA8443D1F for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:25:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=yoda.datawok.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1At0Wm-0004jK-00; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:24:24 -0800 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:24:58 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040216194334.B491.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> <200402162154.45288.algould@datawok.com> <40319980.4040303@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <40319980.4040303@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402170224.58576.algould@datawok.com> X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b6a1ef86ab4a08ba874f4614e23a8eb80350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: gerard-seibert@rcn.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shutting down system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:25:48 -0000 On Monday 16 February 2004 10:33 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Andrew L. Gould wrote: > >On Monday 16 February 2004 06:44 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: > >>I have version 5.2 RC#1 installed. > >> > >>I have not been able to get the shutdown command to power down my > >> computer. I used the following command: > >> > >>shutdown -p now > >> > >>It simple gets to a point where it says press any key to restart. I never > >>had any problem doing a power off shutdown using Windows XP. Can any one > >>give me any assistance? > >> > >>Thanks! > >> > >>Gerard E. Seibert > >>gerard-seibert@rcn.com > > > >Did you enable apm in /etc/rc.conf? > > > >What do you get when you execute the following? > > > >apm -s > > > >If you get a 0 (zero), then I don't think apm is enabled at bootup. See > > if this works: > > > >apm -e 1 > >shutdown -p now > > > >If it worked, then apm is functioning; but you need to enable it prior to > >shutdown. > > > >Best of luck, > > > >Andrew Gould > > Just curious ... 5.X uses ACPI, not APM, right? > > So does your advice still hold true? > > "$apm -s" returns 0 on my system, but > shutdown -p works like a charm.... > > Should we perhaps also check whether > or not "kldstat" returns "acpi.ko" ?? > > Kevin Kinsey oops -- my brain completely glossed over the version number. You're correct that 5* uses ACPI by default; but if ACPI doesn't work on a specific computer, I think the kernel can be reconfigured to use APM. If ACPI is working for you, that's great! I recall many had problems with it in FreeBSD 5.1. Have the problems been ironed out in 5.2? Thanks, Andrew Gould