In message <20030312.150659.68547290.kochi@netbsd.org>, Takayoshi Kochi writes:
>Hi Miguel,
>
>From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>
>Subject: What happened to shutdown -p?
>Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:40:46 +0100
>
>> After upgrading from 1.6O to 1.6P, shutdown -p now no longer powers off
>> my box. Were some big/important ACPI changes committed during this time? Has
>> anyone else seen this?
>
>I haven't reproduce this problem locally, but there is already
>a PR/20614 regarding the ACPI shutdown problem.
>
>http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=20614
>
>Quite possibly you are hit by the same problem.
>I'm looking into the problem now.

Oddly enough, on a desktop machine (an ASUS A7Pro motherboard with a 
VIA chipset) 'shutdown -p' didn't work for me with APM, but does work 
with ACPI....


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