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Date:      Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:47:34 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Christian Tischler <mail@myunix.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Power Off with ATX board wont work...
Message-ID:  <20050811073925.T95982@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <42FAE29F.9090207@myunix.net>
References:  <42FAE29F.9090207@myunix.net>

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Christian Tischler wrote:

> Hi,
> my FreeBSD 4.9 box (old, but rock solid, and as there are no security
> concerns I do not intend to update it) has to be shut down every night
> to reduce energy costs. But after shutdown is complete I get the "hit
> any button to reboot" or so screen, but the atx power supply does not
> turn off. This is rather anoying. I have compiled in all the relevant
> stuff into the kernel but somehow I have missed something and google was
> not very helpfull, too.
>
> My question would be what I could have missed, and if this could be a
> hardeware problem? It is an old 1.xGhz amd box, so nothing fancy here.

Do you have apm_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and 'device apm' in your 
kernel config?

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA



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