From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 25 04:38:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECE2B16A4CE for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 04:38:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.celeritystorm.com (mail.celeritystorm.com [213.247.62.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8064143D2D for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 04:38:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from user@celeritystorm.com) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (unknown [81.84.175.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.celeritystorm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 389323D74B2 for ; Sat, 25 Dec 2004 05:39:35 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41CCEED3.5020000@celeritystorm.com> Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 04:38:43 +0000 From: - User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Unable to get APM running on an Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 04:38:55 -0000 Hi list, I simply can't get APM to work on this laptop. It is a travelmate 4002WLMi (P-M 1.6) on which I've just installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, and built a custom kernel with apm, apm_saver and acpi (also tried with only apm, apm+apm_saver, and now apm+apm_saver+acpi) I had set the hints to disable ACPI and enable APM on /boot/device.hints (don't know the exact names now and I've just shut the laptop down) - This resulted in no /dev/apm and /dev/apmctl entries being created.. I tried changing the order of the statements (enable APM first then disable ACPI).. to no avail I also tried enabling both, which obviously didn't work quite well :-) apm_enable="YES" and apmd_enable="YES" on /etc/rc.conf apm_load="YES" on /boot/loader.conf Still, /dev/apm*'s never show up. Except if I actually disable APM and enable ACPI instead, /dev/apm will show.. but no /dev/apmctl. I'm new to the laptop world and I really would like to enable power saving features on this laptop.. I had managed to get est/estctrl running, and it was changing my CPU from 600 to 1600 ghz according to the load, but when I disable APM and enable ACPI this will cease working and the CPU will always run at 1600ghz. Also, acpiconf -i0 says device not configured.. As far as I was able to see, most battery monitoring stuff (integrated on KDE and all) will depend on APM.. So I'd really like to enable it! Am I missing some step to get APM working? Or does this laptop just plain and simply doesn't support it ? Please enlighten me. Best regards, Hugo