From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 14 21:10:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E267016A4CF for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:10:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EFE043D45 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:10:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no) Received: from broadpark.no (52.80-202-129.nextgentel.com [80.202.129.52]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC0218A3; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:10:31 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <40CE142F.8090805@broadpark.no> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:10:07 +0200 From: Henrik W Lund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040410 X-Accept-Language: no, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ray References: <20040613205652.GB414@systemloop.com> <40CDA494.2070409@broadpark.no> <20040614120705.GA3511@systemloop.com> In-Reply-To: <20040614120705.GA3511@systemloop.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apm support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:10:14 -0000 ray wrote: > i did all that :) > i added apmd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and i also removed the disable line from my kernel config. > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:13:56PM +0200, Henrik W Lund wrote: > >>ray wrote: >> >>>hi, i have a Sony Vaio PCG-GRZ660 laptop and i'm trying to get apm >>>to work. i have the apmd running. apm displays this: >>> >>>~# apm >>>APM version: 1.2 >>>APM Management: Disabled >> >> ^^^^^^^^ >> Look here! >> >>My guess is that you've left the line apm_enable=yes out from your >>/etc/rc.conf. Put it in there! :-) >> >>If you have it in /etc/rc.conf, check your kernel config to see if it's >>enabled in there. I believe it is disabled in GENERIC, so you have to >>enable it. This is for 4.X of course. I don't know about 5.X >> >>-Henrik W Lund Do a dmesg | grep apm. If that gets you a line saying something like apm0: ... or something like that, it's software disabled. Try an apm -e enable. Then run apm again without arguments, and see if it says enabled. If that doesn't work, I guess it's your apm hardware not being supported. :-/ -Henrik W Lund