Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:43:16 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: security@revolutionsp.com Subject: Re: Unable to get APM working -- help! Message-ID: <200412261043.30020.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <62903.81.84.175.77.1104000639.squirrel@81.84.175.77> References: <62903.81.84.175.77.1104000639.squirrel@81.84.175.77>
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--nextPart1891449.G1CkRUYbxq Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 05:20, security@revolutionsp.com wrote: > Still, /dev/apm*'s never show up. Except if I actually disable APM and > enable ACPI instead, /dev/apm will show.. but no /dev/apmctl. > > I'm new to the laptop world and I really would like to enable power saving > features on this laptop.. I managed to get est/estctrl running, and it was > changing my CPU from 600 to 1600 ghz according to the load, but when I > disabled APM and enabled ACPI this ceases to work and the CPU will always > run at 1600ghz. Also, acpiconf -i0 says device not configured.. Use ACPI. It will provide an APM like interface (/dev/apm) for userland apps to use t= o=20 get info. It's possible your laptop doesn't even _do_ APM :) > As far as I was able to see, most battery monitoring stuff (integrated on > KDE and all) will depend on APM.. So I'd really like to enable it! ACPI will allow you to do this plus a lot more. If you want to do things based on power related state changes (eg lid close= ,=20 power button press, AC unplugged etc..) you can use devd which can respond = to=20 ACPI events. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1891449.G1CkRUYbxq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBzgIp5ZPcIHs/zowRAk3vAJ48FMJoT8UqEIvVUvBwe3fsCjs1YACgk0PI Ge2dRde0Dd0e2mLLyr7gkqU= =F+Y7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1891449.G1CkRUYbxq--
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