Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:37:31 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@jgl.reno.nv.us> To: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" <culverk@wam.umd.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: shutdown -p now Message-ID: <02bb01bee9fc$911d4ec0$0200000a@home> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908180908580.25566-100000@rac1.wam.umd.edu>
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> I want shutdown to make my computer turn off without pushing the power
> button. I looked in the manpage for shutdown, and shutdown -p now is
> supposed to turn off the computer. However it doesn't. I have a PII 450
> with the apm device turned on. Windows, and Redhat both do what I'm asking
> so I was just wondering what I'm doing wrong in FreeBSD.
I'm not sure, 'cause I don't have a new-enough computer :-(
But...
Do you have APM support compiled into your kernel?
From LINT:
# Miscellaneous hardware:
...
# apm: Laptop Advanced Power Management (experimental)
...
device apm0 at isa?
Also, see the apm(8) man page.
Hope this helps,
--Dan
** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is...
** You can download FreeBSD with it!
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