I'm not totally sure but i think you need either apm or acpi enabled
in the kernel. That way powerd won't whine about an non-configured
/dev/power device.

David

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:22:43PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> I was looking at the new howto and saw the note about powerd. I added
> powerd=YES to the domU's rc.conf but it won't be started. Am I missing
> something here?
> 
> 
> Starting powerd.
> Apr 22 15:11:08 r212 powerd[272]: open /dev/power: Device not configured
> Starting sendmail.
> Starting inetd.
> Starting cron.
> Fri Apr 22 15:11:39 EEST 2005
> 
> NetBSD/i386 (localhost) (console)
> 
> login: root
> Password:
> 
> # uname -a
> NetBSD localhost 3.0_BETA NetBSD 3.0_BETA (XENU) #6: Wed Apr 20 06:11:54 
> EEST 2005  root@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/XENU i386
> 

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