From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 4 11:10:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF8037B409 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:10:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f54IJYL01922; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200106041819.f54IJYL01922@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Simon Siemonsma" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is nexus? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 Jun 2001 17:44:46 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 11:19:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In the GENERIC kernel configuration file two there is a statement: at nexus? > ............. > Namely at the apm0 and np0) device. What does it mean? It seems like to get > powermanagement working on my desktop I have to remove it from the: device > apm0 line. No, you have to remove the 'disable' keyword. 8) > Can anyone explain me, as I would like to understand why it works that way. The nexus is just the logical entity to which all devices are ultimately connected. Every device in the system has to attach to something; for devices that aren't really attached anywhere else, the nexus provides a convenient hook. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message