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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:12:03 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Taavi Talvik <taavi@uninet.ee>
To:        Takanori Watanabe <takawata@axe-inc.co.jp>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: no /dev/apmctl ?
Message-ID:  <20020611210939.P95887-100000@valu.uninet.ee>
In-Reply-To: <200206111801.DAA19975@axe-inc.co.jp>

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On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Takanori Watanabe wrote:

> In message <20020611200324.I93773-100000@valu.uninet.ee>, Taavi Talvik wrote:

Yes, acpi the case. Acpi tries to emulate apm, but seams that this
emulation is incomplete. At least it does not provide support for apmd.

Actually, i should have looked at acpi sources before asking from list.
Again fingers are faster than brain:(

best regards,
taavi

> >I have included apm in kernel (cvsupped yesterday) config file. However,
> >it does not create /dev/apmctl
> >
> >>l /dev/apm*
> >crw-rw-r--  1 root  operator   39,   0 Jun 11 19:31 /dev/apm
>
> This can be fake apm device node made by ACPI driver.
>
> >How is this possible? Driver code /usr/src/sys/i386/apm/apm.c calls
> >creation of both device nodes around line 1106 without any conditionals
> >
> >        make_dev(&apm_cdevsw, 0, 0, 5, 0664, "apm");
> >        make_dev(&apm_cdevsw, 8, 0, 5, 0660, "apmctl");
>
> Are you surely using apm driver? You may have to disable acpi loading
> by typing 'unset acpi_load' in boot loader.
> ACPI makes apm node only, not apmctl node.
>
> Takanori Watanabe
>
>
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