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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:56:08 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        dochawk@psu.edu
Cc:        Simon Perkins <code@brained.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: shutdown with power off ? 
Message-ID:  <15301.56632.612249.95915@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <200110111745.f9BHjRr06533@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
References:  <15301.51012.602254.960006@guru.mired.org> <200110111745.f9BHjRr06533@fac13.ds.psu.edu>

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dochawk@psu.edu types:
> mike men tioned,
> 
> > Simon Perkins <code@brained.org> types:
> > > 	I am a new user with FreeBSD-4.4 release, and was wondering how to
> > > 	poweroff my machine. I tried "halt -p" but it just halts and wants=20
> > > 	me to press a key so that it reboots. Can freebsd interact with
> > > 	APM and really turn the power off ?
> > Yes. You have to enable APM in the kernel and rebuild the
> > kernel. Doing so on some motherboards causes problems with the system
> > clock, which may be why it's off by default. You can fix it in the
> > GENERIC kernel by changing "disable" to "enable" on the apm device
> > line. 
> I just tried this:  
> # Power management support (see LINT for more options)
> device          apm0    at nexus? enable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management
> 
> and get:
> 
> fac13:conf#config RAPTOR
> config: line 146: syntax error

If that's line 146, then maybe you need to delete disable instead of
changing it. I haven't done this in a while....

	<mike
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