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Date:      Fri, 13 May 2005 14:50:30 -0400
From:      "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        doc-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml
Message-ID:  <20050513185030.GA83749@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050512222200.1FBFA5D07@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20050512213507.GB43447@cell.sick.ru> <20050512222200.1FBFA5D07@ptavv.es.net>

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On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:22:00PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On the other hand, ACPI seems to work fine on my 600E these days,
> although I'll admit that I don't pull it out of the drawer very
> often. ACPI didn't work in the past, though. 
> 
> Maybe:
>           <para>FreeBSD supports <acronym>APM</acronym> on certain machines.
>             Please look in the <filename>LINT</filename> (V4.x or the
> 	    <filename>NOTES</filename> (V5.x) kernel config file,
>             searching for the <acronym>APM</acronym> keyword.  Further
>             information can be found in &man.apm.4;.</para>
> 
> 	  <para>FreeBSD 5.X and later support the
> 	    <acronym>ACPI</acronym> features found in most modern
> 	    hardware.  Further information can be found in
> 	    &man.acpi.4;. If a system supports both
> 	    <acronym>APM</acronym> and <acronym>ACPI</acronym>, either
> 	    can be used. You will probably want to try both and use the
> 	    one which works best for your system.
> 	</para>
> 
> In any case, the word "supports" in the second paragraph should be
> changed to "support" for proper agreement with the subject.

Thanks for the wordage, I changed the Q&A.


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