Power management
Philip Pereira
freeserver at wintellect.co.uk
Sat Jan 11 12:48:04 GMT 2003
>
>Probably a mildly heretical question, but I've noticed the '-p' argument for
>shutdown, and I'd like to spend many possibly fruitless hours trying to get
>my freebsd box to emulate my index finger pressing the 'power' button.
>
>Anyone know of resources that deal with the power management doobries for
>ATX form motherboards? Relevant man pages, web pages, etc. gratefully
>received.
>
>James
James,
In order to get this to work, you need to have an ATX based motherboard, a kernel compiled with:
device apm0 #and nothing after these
and then you can try:
Shutdown -p now
It has successfully worked on one of my home PCs and also my laptop :)
--
Phil.
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