From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 1 18:36:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2796137B413 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 18:36:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f921abu71131; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:36:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f921ab709436; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 19:36:37 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200110020136.f921ab709436@harmony.village.org> To: Scott Long Subject: Re: ACPI and APM interoperability? Cc: "Georg-W. Koltermann" , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Oct 2001 08:49:10 MDT." <20011001084910.A1952@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> References: <20011001084910.A1952@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 19:36:37 -0600 From: Warner Losh 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 In message <20011001084910.A1952@hollin.btc.adaptec.com> Scott Long writes: : 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. I've been able to run both with my VAIO. However, my VAIO hangs randomly with ACPI enabled (even when i have apm disable). : > 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. Hmmm. That's good to know. I didn't know that until now. I'll have to reboot my vaio to see how good/bad this information is. : > 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? I don't see this with my Inspiron 8000, so I don't care :-). Seriously, I'm still running stable on my i8000. I'll be cutting over in a little bit (I can dual boot it now), so that will be less of an issue going forward. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message