Subject: Re: Powerdown not working
To: Daniel Herman <daniel.m.herman@lmco.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/04/2002 13:06:17
In message <3DC6B1BE.311F3E13@lmco.com>, Daniel Herman writes:
>
>   I am running NetBSD 1.6 on an IBM Aptiva 2158-240 (K6-2 CPU).  When I
>perform a 'shutdown -p now' the machine will only halt, not powerdown.
>This is an ATX motherboard which does powerdown under Windows.  Does
>anyone have any suggestions?
>
>         Thank you,
>         Dan Herman
>         daniel.m.herman@lmco.com
>
>
>
You need to have apm (or maybe acpi) in your kernel, I believe.

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