From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 5 11: 7: 7 2001 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 11:07:02 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E953C37B402; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:06:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f05J5gG86990; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 11:05:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010105155651.C1835@tao.org.uk> Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:06:51 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: Just how standard is APM? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh , Graham Wheeler , Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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