Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:32:04 +0300 (EEST) From: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to powerdown? APM? or ACPI? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904200730080.62969-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <371BF4B9.54427709@softweyr.com>
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well, the APM support is compiled in and FreeBSD is probing for it! but the problem, FreeBSD is not able to find any APM device on the system! well I have searched for this a lot on the net and found something called ACPI (I am not sure what it is yet though) maybe new intel boards support it only? thanks for the reply On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > > > hello, > > I have an intel T440BX board and freebsd is not able > > to detect APM support of the bios... > > what is wrong? > > > > I have compiled the kernel with APM support and there is no > > option about APM in the bios setup! and freebsd says > > > > apm0 not found! > > > > that is all, how will I enable it? win98 is able to shutdown > > the system and also power down too > > By enabling it. ;^) > > You can do this by running "userconfig" during the booting process; > boot with the -c flag and enable the apm device from configuration > editor, or edit your kernel configuration file and remove the > "disable" keyword from the apm0 line, make a new kernel, and reboot. > > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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