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Date:      Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:09:30 +0100
From:      Morten Vinding Nielsen <morten.vinding.Nielsen@mobilix.dk>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: ESS Maestro not supported and no power switch.
Message-ID:  <2D3005375CAED31199D00008C784963F015D73CB@ms02.mobilix.dk>

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Look in freebsd-mobile both things has been covered there recently.

Apm has to be enabled in /etc/rc.conf also:

apm_enable="YES"


There is a beta version for the sound card (works perfect for me) :-)

Morten

-----Original Message-----
From: simond@irrelevant.org [mailto:simond@irrelevant.org]
Sent: 17. august 2000 15:02
To: David Gilbert
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ESS Maestro not supported and no power switch.


On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:51:16AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
> Recently, I got a good deal on a new laptop and I have found that a
> fair amount of it's hardware is well supported.  There remain two
> naggling bits:
> 
> The other is that there is no "off" switch on the laptop.  Yes, I have 
> examined and tried many BIOS settings and tried several combinations
> of things, but there appears to be no off button.
> 
> Is there code (or a patch) to cause FreeBSD to shut off the power
> apm-wise when a halt is finished?

If your kernel currently has apm compiled in then just try using 
shutdown -p now rather than -h, it may work on your setup, doesn't on
mine :/

-- 
Simon Dick					simond@irrelevant.org



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