From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 26 15:56:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fosburgh.dyndns.org (Dorm-35842.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 121871563A for ; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 15:56:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by fosburgh.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA00427; Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:54:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from wotan@fosburgh.dyndns.org) Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:54:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: Doug White Cc: Andriy Galetski , hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Andriy Galetski wrote: > > > Hi! > > Can I use APM on my ATX desktop computer? > > What shall I do to shutdown and switch OFF my PC from command prompt? > > Is it posible? > > You can sure try it. It depends on the computer how well the APM power > off call is imiplemented. > > Doug White > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org > I just tried it, it never sleeps more than a few seconds before coming back up. I assume that is not good on the HD (it spins down and then back up). If anyone else is successful I would sure appreciate any pointers you might have. 3.1-STABLE from Saturday. Jonathan Fosburgh Geotechnician Snyder Oil Corporation Houston, TX Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498 Manager, FreeBSD Webring: http://www.geocities.com/vienna/1498/computer/freebsdring.html ICQ: 32742908 AIM: Namthorien To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message