From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 14 16:06:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19807 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19799 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:06:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00394; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:29:54 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801142359.KAA00394@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: marc@bowtie.nl cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATX motherboard shutdown? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:24:18 BST." <199801141124.MAA01649@bowtie.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:29:53 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Is it possible to powerdown an ATX computer when doing a halt > from FreeBSD? Also is it possible to automatically shutdown > FreeBSD when I switch it off with the off-switch at the front? Yes, and probably no respectively. > Linux seems to able to do this (the first part at least) and uses > the APM interface for it, while the APM power off seems to implemented > in FreeBSD too, it misses a reference to it in kern_shutdown.c, or *I*'m > missing it. It's there in -current. > PS. Only the apm.c in -current seems to have support for the > power off function, is there any reason why this wouldn't > work in -stable? Nobody with a -stable system has decided to backport it. If someone were to do so, it would probably be committed. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\