Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:03:45 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> Cc: thyerm@camtech.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to power off an ATX power supply machine on shutdown ? Message-ID: <36C3FC81.4965F3C8@newsguy.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902120005080.38269-100000@localhost> <36C2ECB2.A170B00C@we.lc.ehu.es>
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"Jose M. Alcaide" wrote:
>
> Matthew Thyer wrote:
> > Anyway, how do I power off a machine on shutdown ?
> >
> > I have "apm" in the kernel and it probes as apm v 1.2 but when
> > the "shutdown -p now" command is run, the power is not turned
> > off and I have to hold down the power button for 4 seconds to
> > turn it off.
> >
> > Hows it done ?
> >
> > Do I have to run "apmconf -e" (The owner hasn't tried this yet)
>
> Yes. There is a knob in /etc/rc.conf ("apm_enable") that forces
> this at startup.
It doesn't work in all cases, though. It sure doesn't work on _my_
machine.
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