On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Thanatos wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:55:17 -0800 > From: Thanatos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Vidor Demeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Power off problem > > Vidor Demeter wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I used to be a SuSE user but I've decided to install FreeBSD instead, > > which I do not regret. I had some great surprises compared to Linux, > > and I've decided to stay with FreeBSD! :-) > > So I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I will have some questions until I get > > the system run after my whishes. > > The first problem is that I can not manage to configure the system > > shutdown with power off option. I've compiled the kernel with the apm > > option and I changed the rc.conf file as well, with ' apm_enable="YES" ', > > but no luck. After the shutdown I have to power off the system with the > > Power Off button! :-( > > I can not find any further help on this but what I described here. > > Did I missed something? > > I have an AMD 1800+ XP CPU, with 256MB RAM and 40GB HD, Asus mobo. > > Can somebody help me ? > > TIA Vidor > > > > > > Hi Vidor, > > I seem to remember geting this to work on my Athlon 1700 XP with MIS KT7 > Turbo2 motherboard. Can you show me the line for apm in your kernel > config script? Have you checked to make sure the power management is > enabled in your bios? > > Hope I can help you out, > Thanatos >
Going by what is listed in LINT for my VIA/Athlon chipset, I put this in my kernel: # Power Management Stuff device smbus device viapm device smb device iicbb device iicbus device iicsmb Now my kernel correctly recognizes my power management chip: viapropm0: SMBus I/O base at 0xe800 viapropm0: <VIA VT82C686A Power Management Unit> port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 4.4 on pci0 viapropm0: SMBus revision code 0x40 smb0: <SMBus general purpose I/O> on smbus0 However, with all the tweaking, the PC still will not power itself down. It does in Red Hat and Slackware. I guess for a server opsys which displays epoch-length uptimes, powering down isn't too high on the feature support list ;-) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
