ACPI -> shutdown

[Josef Karthauser]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 12:12:23AM +0200, Ingo B?ngener wrote:
> > 
> > Is it the bios that is doing this?  It's never worked before - I'd say
> > that you guys have fixed ACPI and that's why it is working, but why does
> > -p not work then?
> > 
> 
> I experienced the same problem with 'shutdown -p' and could fix it by setting
> the sysctl variable "hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff" to "0":
> > sysctl hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff=0
> or adding hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff=0  to /etc/sysctl.conf
> 

It definitely appears that acpi isn't loaded:

    genius# sysctl -a | grep acpi
    [nothing]

That said with things in this state suspend/resume actually works! :)

Joe
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