From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 3 13:56:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1b.mail.yahoo.com (smtp3.mail.yahoo.com [128.11.68.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B89837B502 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from red2-19.redrock.net (HELO Presario) (209.197.4.72) by smtp.mail.vip.suc.yahoo.com with SMTP; 3 Oct 2000 20:56:40 -0000 X-Apparently-From: From: Lorin Lund Organization: WB Software Inc To: Sleepless in Brisbane , D M P Subject: Re: How to get shutdown -p to work? Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 14:55:23 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00100314581201.00463@Presario> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Sleepless in Brisbane wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, D M P wrote: > > > How do I get the -p option (turn off power on shutdown) to work? The > > shutdown(8) man page says hardware support is required. I can only > > think that this means the option requires the ATX design's soft-off > > capability, but it doesn't seem to be working on my system--4.1-R on > > an Intel Venus mainboard (PPro, VS440FX). Any ideas? Let me know if > > you need more information. > > Things like power off and such require you to have APM support compiled into > the kernel. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I have 4.0 RELEASE. I had to add en apm to /boot/kernel.conf, as well as enable_apm="YES" in /etc/rc.conf I think that is all I did to make it work. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message