Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:10:07 +0200 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: ray <limited7@systemloop.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apm support Message-ID: <40CE142F.8090805@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <20040614120705.GA3511@systemloop.com> References: <20040613205652.GB414@systemloop.com> <40CDA494.2070409@broadpark.no> <20040614120705.GA3511@systemloop.com>
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ray wrote: > i did all that :) > i added apmd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and i also removed the disable line from my kernel config. > > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:13:56PM +0200, Henrik W Lund wrote: > >>ray wrote: >> >>>hi, i have a Sony Vaio PCG-GRZ660 laptop and i'm trying to get apm >>>to work. i have the apmd running. apm displays this: >>> >>>~# apm >>>APM version: 1.2 >>>APM Management: Disabled >> >> ^^^^^^^^ >> Look here! >> >>My guess is that you've left the line apm_enable=yes out from your >>/etc/rc.conf. Put it in there! :-) >> >>If you have it in /etc/rc.conf, check your kernel config to see if it's >>enabled in there. I believe it is disabled in GENERIC, so you have to >>enable it. This is for 4.X of course. I don't know about 5.X >> >>-Henrik W Lund Do a dmesg | grep apm. If that gets you a line saying something like apm0: <APM BIOS> ... or something like that, it's software disabled. Try an apm -e enable. Then run apm again without arguments, and see if it says enabled. If that doesn't work, I guess it's your apm hardware not being supported. :-/ -Henrik W Lund
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