Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:04:59 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Malcolm Fitzgerald <mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't Turn Off The Computer turn off the computer? Message-ID: <441F7B6B.3030206@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <7e6edc4c961db1f296c1a3d995129635@pacific.net.au> References: <7e6edc4c961db1f296c1a3d995129635@pacific.net.au>
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Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > When I log out and select "Turn off the computer" it shuts > down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying > this message: > > "The operating system has halted. > Please press any key to reboot." > > Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have > to hold the power button down for several seconds to > get a forced power-off or pull the plug. > > How do I setup BSD so that the command at the login > panel turns the machine off? > > Malcolm It might be helpful to mention your windowing system, but I doubt that it will make a lot of difference. Most likely, FreeBSD doesn't "grok" your system's ACPI. What does "uname -a" say? (Let's establish your OS version first). Do you have any references to "ACPI" in your system's boot message? (you can look in /var/run/dmesg.boot). What does kldstat(8) show? Is "acpi.ko" loaded? It is quite possible, if you are running a relatively recent release on an older machine, that ACPI support is intentionally disabled for your motherboard because FreeBSD considers the system's BIOS/ACPI to be "broken". If this is the case, I'm not sure if the situation can be corrected, or not. The good news: sometimes it is possible to tell the system what kind of ACPI support you need, and have it loaded at boot-time; the bad news: some motherboards/BIOS will never be supported, there simply won't be enough programmer time to devote to all the whims of every chipset designer who's been allowed to release a product. Kevin Kinsey -- Imagine me going around with a pot belly. It would mean political ruin. -- Adolf Hitler
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