From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jan 2 18:44:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from westhost43.westhost.net (westhost43.westhost.net [216.71.84.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12DA37B41C for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:44:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dsl092-099-212.nyc2.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.99.212]) by westhost43.westhost.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g032lpJ11405 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 20:47:51 -0600 Received: from chexmix by localhost with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16LtC5-00066W-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jan 2002 16:45:05 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:45:04 -0500 To: FreeBSD mobile Subject: power management question Message-ID: <20020102214504.GA23298@burningclown.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i From: Glenn Becker Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, My New Year's Eve consisted of my diving into the task of installing FreeBSD 4.3 on an older Toshiba laptop - a Satellite Pro 470CDT. Despite my nervousness about the operation it went remarkably well and the box seems to work great: even X works, which was a concern. Today I started wondering about battery-level monitoring. Apparently, power management support is pretty flaky. I tried the suggested tactics for getting the apm function to work (short of recompiling it into the kernel) and no go. I guess my question is - is my only recourse to keep the thing plugged in? Thanks, Glenn Becker To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message