how to enable auto power off
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Sep 18 06:22:31 PDT 2003
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
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