Re: Power off

From: Álvaro Jurado Cuevas (saz23_at_auna.com)
Date: 09/08/05 

Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 00:05:45 GMT

Keve Nagy wrote:

> Sime Mikecin wrote:
>
>> "Álvaro 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
Ok, it's APM what I'm looking for. The machine is a PIII.
Thanks.

Mikecin, "shutdown -h now" and press power button it's what I'm doing in the
present day. Thanks in any case. 

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