From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 27 14:22:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA29907 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:22:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA29874 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 14:22:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA05169; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:21:26 +0100 (CET) To: Cory Kempf cc: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM: Too tired to keep working?! In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 27 Mar 1998 16:51:06 EST." Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 23:21:26 +0100 Message-ID: <5167.891037286@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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