Upgraded from 4.9 to 5.2.1, apm no longer works?
Darren Pilgrim
dmp at bitfreak.org
Sat Jul 24 10:39:40 PDT 2004
> From: Johan Pettersson [mailto:manlix at demonized.net]
>
> 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'.
`init 0` is preferred because it runs /etc/rc.shutdown. Neither are going
to work, anyway, because /dev/apm isn't present.
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