Re: Power off

From: Keve Nagy (see_my_sig_at_address.invalid)
Date: 09/07/05

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    Sime Mikecin wrote:

    > "lvaro Jurado Cuevas" <saz23@auna.com> wrote in message
    > news:O4yTe.3602081$I96.4055121@telenews.teleline.es...
    >
    >>Well, I've installed FBSD 5.4. In Linux I remember that recompiled the
    >>kernel to support automatic power off in ATX (a few years ago, today this
    >>is not necessary). Should I do the same with FBSD? or there are any script
    >>configuration file?
    >
    >
    > Pressing the power button should shutdown and poweroff.
    > If you want to do it from the keyboard, use: 'shutdown -p now'

    Of course you need to know, that the system will power off ONLY if you
    have either a working ACPI or APM. By default, none of my systems had
    that. Possibly because these are old PIII and PII systems with no ACPI,
    and APM is not included in the GENERIC kernel on 5.x.
    So, you either need to get ACPI working (relatively modern machine) or
    configure a custom kernel with APM included plus enable APM in rc.conf
    while disable ACPI in /boot/device.hints.

    Keve

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