Re: powering off with shutdown -hp?

2009-10-29 Thread Fred Snurd
Rene wrote: You can try to disable apm inthe kernel config. Christian wrote: Remco wrote: If I remember correctly, the following hack in /etc/sysctl.conf worked for me on a Pentium II machine: machdep.apmhalt=1# 1=powerdown hack, try if halt -p doesn't work It does work for my Pentium

Re: powering off with shutdown -hp?

2009-10-28 Thread Rene Maroufi
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:22:59PM -0700, Fred Snurd wrote: From the dmesg (below), this appears to be an old APM-based motherboard. The shutdown(8) manpage states that not all hardware supports automatic power down. That's fine if this hardware doesn't support it, but given the Attempting to

Re: powering off with shutdown -hp?

2009-10-28 Thread Theo de Raadt
From the dmesg (below), this appears to be an old APM-based motherboard. The shutdown(8) manpage states that not all hardware supports automatic power down. That's fine if this hardware doesn't support it, but given the Attempting to power down... message, I am curious if it might be

Re: powering off with shutdown -hp?

2009-10-28 Thread Remco
Fred Snurd wrote: I've just resurrected an old Pentium 3 system with the 22 October i386 snapshot of OpenBSD 4.6-current. It works great, however after issuing shutdown -hp now (I'm greeted with the message shutdown: switch -p must be used with -h. when using shutdown -p now), I'm getting

Re: powering off with shutdown -hp?

2009-10-28 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Remco re...@d-compu.dyndns.org wrote: If I remember correctly, the following hack in /etc/sysctl.conf worked for me on a Pentium II machine: machdep.apmhalt=1# 1=powerdown hack, try if halt -p doesn't work It does work for my Pentium III-based Thinkpad A20m. -- Christian naddy

powering off with shutdown -hp?

2009-10-27 Thread Fred Snurd
I've just resurrected an old Pentium 3 system with the 22 October i386 snapshot of OpenBSD 4.6-current. It works great, however after issuing shutdown -hp now (I'm greeted with the message shutdown: switch -p must be used with -h. when using shutdown -p now), I'm getting the system message