Upgraded from 4.9 to 5.2.1, apm no longer works?

[Johan Pettersson]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:46:56 -0700
"Darren Pilgrim" <dmp at bitfreak.org> wrote:

> I had RELENG_4_9 working flawlessly on an older machine.  I upgraded
> to 5.2.1-R by means of wiping and installing from scratch, then
> source-upgraded to RELENG_5_2.  The computer does not have ACPI
> support, only APM.  The kernel has "device apm" compiled in and
> hint.apm.0.disable="0" in/boot/loader.conf, but no apm device is
> detected.  Subsequently, `apm -e enable` fails:
> 
> apm: can't open /dev/apm: No such file or directory
> 
> The only reason I use APM on this machine is so that `init 0` turns
> the machine off rather than just halting.  How do I get this
> functionality back?
> 

Try 'shutdown -p now'.