From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 18 21:37:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80790150C7 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:37:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from pandora.home (rno-max7-18.gbis.net [207.228.61.210]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA20749; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by pandora.home (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id VAA62184; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:37:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <02bb01bee9fc$911d4ec0$0200000a@home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Kenneth Wayne Culver" , References: Subject: Re: shutdown -p now Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 21:37:31 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I want shutdown to make my computer turn off without pushing the power > button. I looked in the manpage for shutdown, and shutdown -p now is > supposed to turn off the computer. However it doesn't. I have a PII 450 > with the apm device turned on. Windows, and Redhat both do what I'm asking > so I was just wondering what I'm doing wrong in FreeBSD. I'm not sure, 'cause I don't have a new-enough computer :-( But... Do you have APM support compiled into your kernel? From LINT: # Miscellaneous hardware: ... # apm: Laptop Advanced Power Management (experimental) ... device apm0 at isa? Also, see the apm(8) man page. Hope this helps, --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message