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From: Matt Snow <drama@slakin.net>
To: David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
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Subject: Re: APM not even a sign
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Yes, I know dc has *nothing* to do with it, but he/she mentioned it so I
just included it. ;)

I remember having the same issue though on my vaio PCG-N505VE, if I
specified the 'at nexus?' flag in the kernel I had to manually enable APM
just before booting.

* * * * * * * *
Matt Snow
 (@) drama@slakin.net
 (w) http://slakin.net.

On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, David Syphers wrote:

> On Saturday 29 June 2002 09:12 pm, Matt Snow wrote:
> > try this, I just thought about it...
> >
> >  in KERNEL:
> > device              apm0
> > device                  dc
>
> Really, honestly, and truly, I swear you don't need device dc for this.  From
> LINT:
>
> # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
> device          dc              # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes
>
> This has _nothing_ to do with APM.
>
> >  in your /etc/rc.conf:
> > apm_enable="YES"
> > apmd_enable="YES"
>
> Enabling apm in the kernel and turning on the two nobs in rc.conf should be
> it.  If that doesn't work, then either your computer doesn't really have APM
> or FreeBSD doesn't support its implementation.
>
> -David
>
> --
> Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand...
>
> Astronomy and Astrophysics Center
> The University of Chicago
>


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