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Date:      Fri, 05 Jan 2001 17:17:02 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        dmaddox@sc.rr.com
Cc:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Just how standard is APM?
Message-ID:  <3A5582FE.767A617D@newsguy.com>
References:  <3A545615.3597BCF3@cequrux.com> <200101042234.f04MYM147333@harmony.village.org> <3A556040.6B9163BB@cequrux.com> <20010105024436.A2700@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com>

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"Donald J . Maddox" wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I thought that APM was APM, but the apm device does nothing
> on my desktop with power management hardware...  That is, things like
> 'shutdown -p now' don't work, both 'apm' and 'apmd' just return
> 'device not configured', etc.  Interestingly, at least 'shutdown -p'
> does work with ACPI anyway :)  Of course, maybe I'm just misunder-
> standing the whole thing anyway...  Is power management hardware
> == APM?

If this is still about the Presario laptop, APM works (or did up to
november) on the Compaq Presario 1621. Note the apm and acpi can't be
used together in the same kernel.

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org
capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org

		"The bronze landed last, which canceled that method of impartial
choice."


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