From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 24 6: 6:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D7CD37B42C for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 06:06:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rod.darktech.org (ip18.cambridge2.ma.pub-ip.psi.net [38.32.112.18]) by penguin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA27746; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 06:06:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eogren@localhost) by rod.darktech.org (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e7OD5fQ00759; Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:05:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from eogren) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:05:41 -0400 From: Eric Ogren To: Ernst de Haan Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Sebastiaan van Erk Subject: Re: shutdown -p does not power down Message-ID: <20000824090541.A244@earthlink.net> References: <20000824135230.A3631@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000824135230.A3631@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>; from ernst@jollem.com on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:52:30PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 01:52:30PM +0200, Ernst de Haan wrote: > Hi all, > > It seems shutdown -p does not work as described in shutdown(8): > > -p The system is halted and the power is turned off (hardware > support required) at the specified time. > > I _do_ have hardware support, I have a recent BIOS, and dmesg tells me: > > apm0: on motherboard > apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 Do you have `apm_enable="YES"' in your /etc/rc.conf file? If not, put it in there and try again. Eric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message