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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2001 23:40:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-1?q?shanon=20loveridge?= <shanon_loveridge@yahoo.co.uk>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ATX soft power switch
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111132339450.29557-100000@rac3.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <15345.18715.468437.712039@guru.mired.org>

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Maybe it's changed since the last time I tried it. I've been using
-CURRENT for a while, which uses ACPI so I can't remember, last time I
tried it with 4.x was about a month ago, and at that point it still needed
apm to be enabled in rc.conf.

Ken

On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

> [Format recovered from top posting.]
> 
> Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu> types:
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > > shanon loveridge <shanon_loveridge@yahoo.co.uk> types:
> > > > Is there a way to make use of the ATX soft power
> > > > switch in FreeBSD so the computer will automaticaly
> > > > power off when shutdown?
> > > > I know this can be done in Linux by recompiling the
> > > > kernal with this feature set.
> > > You need to build the kernel with apm enabled. At that point,
> > > "shutdown -p" should do what you want.
> > > 
> > You also have to enable apm by adding apm_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
> 
> Are you sure? Last time I wanted to control just poweroff, I didn't
> need to enable apm via /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> 	<mike
> --
> Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>			http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/
> Q: How do you make the gods laugh?		A: Tell them your plans.
> 


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