From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 2 16:37:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2C437B408 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:37:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f92Nl5t02991; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200110022347.f92Nl5t02991@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who has info on APM? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:19:18 EDT." <01100210191806.05392@i8k.babbleon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 16:47:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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? ACPI. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message