Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:
When I log out and select "Turn off the computer" it shuts
down the system and leaves the machinery running, displaying
this message:
"The operating system has halted.
Please press any key to reboot."
Pressing the power button fires up the system. I have
to hold the power button down for several seconds to
get a forced power-off or pull the plug.
How do I setup BSD so that the command at the login
panel turns the machine off?
Malcolm
It might be helpful to mention your windowing
system, but I doubt that it will make a lot of difference.
Most likely, FreeBSD doesn't "grok" your system's
ACPI. What does "uname -a" say? (Let's establish
your OS version first).
Do you have any references to "ACPI" in your system's
boot message? (you can look in /var/run/dmesg.boot).
What does kldstat(8) show? Is "acpi.ko" loaded?
It is quite possible, if you are running a relatively
recent release on an older machine, that ACPI support
is intentionally disabled for your motherboard because
FreeBSD considers the system's BIOS/ACPI to be
"broken". If this is the case, I'm not sure if the
situation can be corrected, or not. The good news:
sometimes it is possible to tell the system what kind
of ACPI support you need, and have it loaded at
boot-time; the bad news: some motherboards/BIOS
will never be supported, there simply won't be
enough programmer time to devote to all the
whims of every chipset designer who's been allowed
to release a product.
Kevin Kinsey
--
Imagine me going around with a pot belly.
It would mean political ruin.
-- Adolf Hitler
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