Excuse me for my lack of knowledge, but do I have to recompile my kernel
to use APM?  When I do recompile my kernel, will there be file to set the
configuration options mentioned in apm(4)?  Also, there is no option to
turn the power off.
Thanks,
Yasir

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:

> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:05:33 +0100
> From: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
> To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@heineken.cs.stevens-tech.edu>,
>      NetBSD mailing list <port-i386@netbsd.org>
> Subject: Re: powerdown system
>
> On Saturday 13 December 2003 16:32, Yasir Malik wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to shutdown my system using shutdown -p now, but whenever I do so,
> > the system halts and asks me to press any key to reboot.  How can I
> > configure my system to support software powerdown?  I usually
> > manually shutdown my machine after logging off, but this causes a scan
> > disk at the next time I boot.  This is very annoying because I have to
> > wait more than a minute for it to finish.  Can anyone help me out?
>
> You need to have APM support in kernel; see apm(4).  ACPI won't do it.
>
> --
> Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
> The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/
>