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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 23:30:00 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>, FreeBSD Mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Using FreeBSD on Toshiba Satellite 105CS 
Message-ID:  <199805220530.XAA02340@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 18:11:43 PDT." <199805220111.SAA06086@antipodes.cdrom.com> 
References:  <199805220111.SAA06086@antipodes.cdrom.com>  

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In message <199805220111.SAA06086@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
: This is odd; they work fine on most systems even without APM support 
: enabled.  It's possible that there's something undesirable happening,
: but I'm at somewhat of a loss as to what it might be - those keyboard 
: hotkeys are handled at a very low level, where nothing should be able 
: to stop them.

I've seen on my libretto odd things like this before I got the apm
device configured into my kernel.  Once I did that point (3) was
solved.  This is likely a good indication that doing that may solve
point (2) also.

: > (2) I have my BIOS set to automatically power down the LCD screen after 1
: > minute of inactivity.  This has saved me a LOT of battery life.  NOrmally
: ...
: > (3) When I typed "halt" or "shutdown -h" in Linux, it automatically turned
: > my laptop's power OFF after it did its shutdown thing.  Is there any way
: > to get FreeBSD to do this?
: 
: Try 'apmconf -e' first.  You can enable this by default in /etc/rc.conf.

That is something else to try as well...

Warner

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