Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:29:53 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: marc@bowtie.nl Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATX motherboard shutdown? Message-ID: <199801142359.KAA00394@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:24:18 BST." <199801141124.MAA01649@bowtie.nl>
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> > 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. \\
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