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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 2002 03:01:03 +0900
From:      Takanori Watanabe <takawata@axe-inc.co.jp>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: no /dev/apmctl ?
Message-ID:  <200206111801.DAA19975@axe-inc.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:09:42 %2B0300." <20020611200324.I93773-100000@valu.uninet.ee>

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In message <20020611200324.I93773-100000@valu.uninet.ee>, Taavi Talvik wrote:
>
>I have included apm in kernel (cvsupped yesterday) config file. However,
>it does not create /dev/apmctl
>
>>l /dev/apm*
>crw-rw-r--  1 root  operator   39,   0 Jun 11 19:31 /dev/apm

This can be fake apm device node made by ACPI driver.

>How is this possible? Driver code /usr/src/sys/i386/apm/apm.c calls
>creation of both device nodes around line 1106 without any conditionals
>
>        make_dev(&apm_cdevsw, 0, 0, 5, 0664, "apm");
>        make_dev(&apm_cdevsw, 8, 0, 5, 0660, "apmctl");

Are you surely using apm driver? You may have to disable acpi loading
by typing 'unset acpi_load' in boot loader.
ACPI makes apm node only, not apmctl node.

Takanori Watanabe



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