Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:21:26 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Cory Kempf <ckempf@enigami.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM: Too tired to keep working?! Message-ID: <5167.891037286@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:51:06 EST." <v04003a0cb141ceda2ab7@[208.140.182.45]>
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In message <v04003a0cb141ceda2ab7@[208.140.182.45]>, Cory Kempf writes: >>> I have a DK440LX m'board. It has power management stuffs. So I though I >>> would give it a try, thinking, when the machine isn't doing anything, it >>> doesn't need to keep heating my office. >>> >>> I started a make world last night, 'round 1 AM -- 9 hours ago. I was >>> rather surprized to note that it is still going. It doesn't usually take >>> this long. >>> >>> >From looking about, it seems the machine was sleeping on the job. >>> >>> Is this normal behaviour? If so, I don't think it is correct. I expected >>> the system to finish the build, *THEN* fall asleep. >> >>APM only tells the system to fall asleep when you tell it to. > >Uh, my system seems to disagree. > >I did an apmconf -e to enable it, and it did the rest. When I moved the >mouse, the screen woke up, the disk started rattling, and the compile >picked up and continued. The parameters are set in your bios, check the "APM" page in your BIOS-setup. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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