From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 5 13:55:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu (exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu [206.81.198.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2AD814C57 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:55:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hodeleri@seattleu.edu) Received: from seattleu.edu (ppp7.pm2a.wport.com [206.129.99.57]) by exegrnnts001.seattleu.edu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id PKDHWS7R; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 13:53:15 -0700 Message-ID: <37A9FA33.426D35FC@seattleu.edu> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 13:55:15 -0700 From: Eric Hodel Organization: Dis X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Mutsaers Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent apm changes References: <87n1w6hk62.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Mutsaers wrote: > > Hello, > > After Linux I gave FreeBSD a try again, when I saw some improvements > to APM had been committed. > > I hoped for a real suspend mode, but alas. Now I'm wondering what > makes the difference, and whether I could do it myself. > > Let me explain: I run my (desktop) computer in the living room. I > don't want to shut it down all the time, but it must be 100% quiet > when I'm not using it. > > In Linux, when suspend mode is activated (either through a short press > on the power button or by the (BIOS) timer ), the disks also spin down > (immediately, not waiting for their timer, which I disabled) and also > the CPU fan and/or the FAN of the box switches off. > > In FreeBSD, when I activate suspend mode, I see the light on my > computer blinking, indicating it has gone into suspend mode, but still > there is no reduction in noise whatsoever. The disks keep spinning, > the CPU fan (or whatever) too. I could activate the BIOS spindown > timer on the HDD's, but I'd rather not (since then I also get > spindowns while I'm normally working with the computer) but still the > other fan will always continue to run. > > What can I do to change this behaviour? Can anyone explain what Linux > (or Win95 for that matter) are doing to make it 100% quiet in suspend > mode? Then I could give it a try to have FreeBSD do the > same. Currently this prevents me from using FreeBSD alas. Have you looked at PAO at all? http://www.jp.freebsd.org/PAO/ I've got a -current machine (no cvsups in a few months) that wakes up immediately after suspending. (sleeps 0 seconds) -- Eric Hodel hodeleri@seattleu.edu "They cook your gonies" -Terry Lambert's uncle on why he doesn't have a microwave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message