how to enable auto power off

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Charles Howse wrote:

> OK, I just checked the BIOS, and it does have Power Management support,
> and when I boot, I also see 'ACPI function enable' in the post msgs.  I
> realize that ACPI is not supported in FBSD < 5.x.  I'm running 4.8-p4.
>
> I've never used Power Management on any of my computers, so this is new
> territory for me.
> I would assume that I need to set Power Management to 'enabled' in BIOS,
> or no?

No.  At least not on the machines I've set up lately.  You need 'device
apm' (the hints have never been needed on my machines) and
'apm_enable="YES"', but that's it.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA