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 > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >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 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"