Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 12:09:49 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Who has info on APM? Message-ID: <XFMail.011002120949.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <01100210191806.05392@i8k.babbleon.org>
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On 02-Oct-01 Brian T.Schellenberger wrote: > On Monday 01 October 2001 23:32, Mike Smith wrote: >> > Where do I look for pointers on APM systems in particular models of >> > laptops? I have an R505-TL and the APM stuff is not quite working and >> > I'd like to fix that. Pointers please? >> >> As a general rule, you don't, because the information you're looking for >> isn't available. >> >> You should get yourself a copy of the APM standards (I typically go through >> hwdev.microsoft.com and rummage around) and start experimenting; the actual >> problem is likely to be obscure, and may involve some disassembly of your >> BIOS. >> >> It's also worth noting that APM in modern laptops is severely deprecated, >> and your BIOS may in fact be entirely broken. > > If APM is severely depricated, how *is* one supposed to monitor battery life, > power off on shutdown, and all that? sysctl hw.acpi has battery status. Note that with ACPI, not only does shutdown -p now power off the machine, but pressing the power button will invoke a nice clean shutdown followed by poweroff. :) I'd like to see you do that with APM. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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