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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:22:07 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: how to enable auto power off
Message-ID:  <20030918071918.O94950@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <003701c37dde$b38140f0$04fea8c0@moe>
References:  <003701c37dde$b38140f0$04fea8c0@moe>

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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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