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From: mike mcgranahan <mike_mcgranahan@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: mikemcg@ucla.edu
Subject: Re: automatic standby after idle timeout
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com>
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--- Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> wrote:
> mike mcgranahan <mike_mcgranahan@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > under windows it is possible to configure the
> system
> > to enter APM standby after a certain amount of
> system
> > inactivity.  in linux their is a program called
> sleepd
> > which will initiate an APM standby after a
> > configurable period of system inactivity, which
> works
> > both on the console as well as while X is running.
>  is
> > there any way to achieve the same effect under
> > freebsd, where the system will enter standby
> after,
> > say, 10 minutes of no activity?
> 
> apmd(8) is the closest thing I know of.
> 
> I don't know all of the new power-control functions
> in 5.x, but
> I wouldn't recommend that for you anyway.

thank you for your reply. correct me if i'm wrong, but
apmd only responds to apm signals sent to it, either
by the user or by the machine hardware (lid closing or
opening).
 
> > also, can anyone describe the apm_saver.ko KLD?  i
> > can't seem to find a description of it anywhere.
> 
> It turns off the screen.

ahh, thanks.  green_saver also turns off the screen
(dpms).  are there any differences between apm_saver
and green_saver?

thank you again.

mike

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