From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 20 7:50:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0611D14EA6 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 07:50:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA27703; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:48:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <371C93AE.8ED830B@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:48:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to powerdown? APM? or ACPI? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Evren Yurtesen wrote: > > well, the APM support is compiled in and FreeBSD > is probing for it! but the problem, FreeBSD is not > able to find any APM device on the system! > well I have searched for this a lot on the net and > found something called ACPI (I am not sure what it > is yet though) maybe new intel boards support it only? Hmm. I poked through the code a little bit, and couldn't make any real sense of it, but I've never looked at APM before. The last hacker to really work on it much appears to have been Poul Henning- Kamp, phk@freebsd.org. You may want to ask him about what you're seeing, and about ACPI. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message