From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 27 00:18:23 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DCD816A401 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:18:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A0813C48D for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:18:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay5.apple.com (a17-128-113-35.apple.com [17.128.113.35]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0R0IMem026510; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:18:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay5.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay5.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 6A93E29C003; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:18:22 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807123-a335abb0000039f2-fe-45ba9a4e4411 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (unknown [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay5.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 5305130400B; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:18:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200701261804.38744.jvender@owensboro.net> References: <200701261415.11046.jvender@owensboro.net> <45BA9192.4060506@netscape.net> <200701261804.38744.jvender@owensboro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:18:21 -0800 To: Joe Vender X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 & 6.2 hanging and/or spontaneous rebooting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:18:23 -0000 On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Joe Vender wrote: > On Friday 26 January 2007 17:41, Tore Lund wrote: >> >> You issue the command "shutdown -p now". This should work with >> any BIOS >> that has apm or acpi, as far as I know. > > I've tried that, but it didn't power off, just got to the halted > step. What > about issuing the "Shutdown computer" from KDE logout? Shouldn't it > power off > the computer? The GUI commands within KDE are going to invoke the command-line shutdown command with the appropriate arguments. What may be going on is that your old hardware only supports the older form of power management/shutdown mechanism, called APM, rather than the newer APCI. You might find that reading "man 4 apm" and "man acpi" will give you some hints on debugging the issue. It might help to try updating your machines BIOS, or to recompile a kernel with ACPI disabled but the older APM enabled, and see whether that gets you somewhere. The fact that you can shutdown within Linux suggests that your hardware does have the capability, so it's just a matter of figuring out what's different. Note that you might find that trying to run FreeBSD 4.11 to be informative, as the defaults for that older version might correspond with your hardware better, although, 4.11 is at the end of it's supported lifespan... -- -Chuck