From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 14:55:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A3A37B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:55:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from glamredhel.hayholt.org (elvandar.hayholt.org [195.18.109.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD4143F93 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 14:55:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@hayholt.org) Received: from eldar.hayholt.org (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by glamredhel.hayholt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674DD2A342; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:54:24 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:56:15 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger To: Brian Henning Cc: freebsd Subject: Re: laptop power managment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030221235535.Q49576@eldar.hayholt.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello- > i have a laptop that i run bsd4.7 on that i like to leave up for long periods of > time. What i would like to do is put the monitor flap down. when i do that the > power management kicks in and starts turning things off for example my (PCMCIA > nic). i don't want it to do that anymore. is there a document out there that can > help me configure bsd not to turn these devices off? > Most laptops allow this to be changed in the bios, since the bios determins that should be done when the lid is closed. Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message