Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 11:23:21 -0500 From: "Steve Brown" <gtabug@prayforwind.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Power management possible on FreeBSD destop machine? Message-ID: <002101c166e3$c4f53c60$660f129f@bro5637>
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Hi all, After many weeks I got a working CD-RW, so this should be my very last hardware related question. On my desktop (pwr management enabled in BIOS) if I run MS-DOS or Windows and I don't touch it for awhile: HDrive spins down, then monitor shuts off, finally the computer goes to sleep... Or with Windows I can just select shutdown which turns it right off... FreeBSD doc's refer to something called "APM" which describes this. But anything I've found on APM always associates this with Laptops and "PCMCIA" cards (docking cards??). I know nothing of laptops, and if my desktop has such a card I'm unaware of it and don't know it's function (is it part of it, something I need to buy, or absent in desktops?). Is this type of power management availiable on a FreeBSD desktop? I did try the steps listed in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html sect 4 Power Management. Whether or not I do this I still get the same result when I issue an apm command "device /dev/apm not configured". What am I missing here? I posted to freebsd-questions earlier and got some replies "RTFM man apm" but there's nothing there about configuring the device... so I'm assuming right now I don't know exactly what to ask or where to start. Or can I persuade FreeBSD to just allow the computer's BIOS to do it, as it does under DOS? Any hints would be greatly appreciated, thanks! Cheers, Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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