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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 08:49:10 -0600
From: Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
To: "Georg-W. Koltermann" <gwk@sgi.com>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ACPI and APM interoperability?
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:50:17AM +0200, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering how I should handle APM now that ACPI has basically
> taken over power management responsibility.

APM and ACPI are mutually exclusive from what I understand.  You should
remove the apm device from your kernel config.

> It seems I still need to configure APM so that /dev/apm is there and
> battery monitoring utilities like the GNOME battery_applet can work.

Battery, temp, etc, can be monitored via the hw.acpi sysctl tree.
Someone will have to do the required conversion to the various APM
utilities is GNOME and whatever else.

> I also was able to suspend and resume my machine (DELL Inspiron 7500)
> with APM being configured (and ACPI being active by default).  Sound
> is dead after a resume,

What sound card?

> PCMCIA is dead after a couple of resumes,

Resource leak?  Warner?

Scott

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