From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 29 19: 3:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D9237B405 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:03:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9U336s36576; Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:03:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:03:06 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Clarke To: "Steve Brown " Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Power Management In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20011029220149.D36459-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Steve Brown wrote: > Hello all, > > Last question re: basic config. > > In windows I can walk away from a machine and the monitor turns off after > a while. A little later the HD spins down, finally the thing goes to > sleep. And when I say "shut down the computer" it turns itself off. I played with APM a long time ago, and it worked so-so. I think a lot of improvements have been made since then. Checkout apm(4), apm(8), and apmd(8). Joe > > I've heard Linux can also do this, what about FreeBSD? How do I get > started investigating this (is it "APM"? The book seems to imply that APM > is for laptops only. I have a desktop machine but I still want it if > possible) > > Any leads would be appreciated, thanks! > > Regards, Steve > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message