Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:06:51 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Just how standard is APM? Message-ID: <XFMail.010105110651.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010105155651.C1835@tao.org.uk>
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On 05-Jan-01 Josef Karthauser wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:57:37PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> > Warner Losh wrote: >> > > >> > > APM is standard. Except when it is broken in some brain damaged ways. >> > > >> > > However, you likely have your apm device disabled in your kernel and >> > > all you need to do is enable it. >> > > >> > >> > Nope - as I said, I added log messages to apm.c to log the BIOS probe >> > and they log a failure (I have "device apm0" in my config file). >> >> How new is this laptop? It may be ACPI-only. > > Where are we at with ACPI? Does it do power management yet? Yes. For the Inspiron that you have you have to hack around a bit to get it to not hang during boot (and battery status doesn't work as a result I think), but suspend/resume on lid close work, the power button works, shutdown -p, etc. > Joe -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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