From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jan 3 15:27:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C63837B41C for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:27:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g03NSHs09143; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:28:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:28:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Glenn Becker Cc: FreeBSD mobile Subject: Re: power management question In-Reply-To: <20020102214504.GA23298@burningclown.com> Message-ID: <20020103152742.S2739-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Glenn Becker wrote: > 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? well, what did you do? GENERIC ships with apm compiled in but disabled ... try enabling it in userconfig or /kernel.config. If it attaches okay, you'll see a boot message and 'apm' should give you battery state info. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message