From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 5 9:57:20 2001 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 09:57:14 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (unknown [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 507C737B402 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:57:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f05Hv2b55344; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:57:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200101051757.f05Hv2b55344@harmony.village.org> To: dmaddox@sc.rr.com Subject: Re: Just how standard is APM? Cc: Graham Wheeler , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 05 Jan 2001 02:44:36 EST." <20010105024436.A2700@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> References: <20010105024436.A2700@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> <3A545615.3597BCF3@cequrux.com> <200101042234.f04MYM147333@harmony.village.org> <3A556040.6B9163BB@cequrux.com> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:57:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010105024436.A2700@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> "Donald J . Maddox" writes: : Yeah, I thought that APM was APM, but the apm device does nothing : on my desktop with power management hardware... That is, things like : 'shutdown -p now' don't work, both 'apm' and 'apmd' just return : 'device not configured', etc. Interestingly, at least 'shutdown -p' : does work with ACPI anyway :) Of course, maybe I'm just misunder- : standing the whole thing anyway... Is power management hardware : == APM? No. APM is a BIOS interface. Many BIOSes that have ACPI have legacy APM support. Some work, some don't. Windows (98 and newer) uses ACPI in preference to APM, so the testing that APM mode gets is usually meager at best. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message