Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 22:46:09 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who has info on APM? Message-ID: <01100222460902.00573@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <200110022347.f92Nl5t02991@mass.dis.org> References: <200110022347.f92Nl5t02991@mass.dis.org>
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On Tuesday 02 October 2001 19:47, you wrote:
> > > It's also worth noting that APM in modern laptops is severely
> > > deprecated, and your BIOS may in fact be entirely broken.
> >
> > If APM is severely depricated, how *is* one supposed to monitor battery
> > life, power off on shutdown, and all that?
>
> ACPI.
Ok, thanks. Although I'm a longtime laptop owner, I've never heard of it
before.
It looks like my computer supports both ACPI and APM. Right now, FreeBSD is
using APM, and I don't see an ACPI option in the LINT config, although the
ACPI FreeBSD page seems to suggest that ACPI is in the FreeBSD source tree as
of over a year ago.
Is it available in stable or only in current?
Or what's the deal?
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