From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 22 8:44:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E9B937B401 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:44:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B477443E3B for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 08:44:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 30980 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2002 16:44:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 22 Nov 2002 16:44:43 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMGic2D042898; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:44:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DDE4D01.2010908@cvzoom.net> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:44:43 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Donn Miller Subject: RE: ACPI and apm_saver? Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Nov-2002 Donn Miller wrote: > ACPI works pretty well on my HP Pavilion Notebook. But is it possible > to get the apm saver (apm_saver.ko) to work with ACPI? From what I > understand, acpi is a superset of apm, and is able to provide some > emulation of apm functionality. So, by this principle, shouldn't > apm_saver work with acpi? > > I've got these in my /etc/rc.conf: > > apm_enable="YES" > apmd_enable="YES" > saver="apm" > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm sure I am. But the standby mode > works great when I press the button or close the lid. ACPI is very different from APM. It provides some of the same functionality from a user perspective, but it is not backwards compatiable with APM at a hardware perspective, so apm_saver will not work with ACPI. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message