From owner-cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 13 18:50:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18A5C16A4CE; Fri, 13 May 2005 18:50:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org [198.22.63.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1DA43D1F; Fri, 13 May 2005 18:50:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: from bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org (mwlucas@localhost [127.0.0.1])j4DIoU2f083785; Fri, 13 May 2005 14:50:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost)j4DIoUl1083784; Fri, 13 May 2005 14:50:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 14:50:30 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" To: Kevin Oberman Message-ID: <20050513185030.GA83749@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20050512213507.GB43447@cell.sick.ru> <20050512222200.1FBFA5D07@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050512222200.1FBFA5D07@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Score: (0.16) HTML_MESSAGE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 cc: Michael Lucas cc: Gleb Smirnoff cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the doc and www trees List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:50:35 -0000 On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:22:00PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On the other hand, ACPI seems to work fine on my 600E these days, > although I'll admit that I don't pull it out of the drawer very > often. ACPI didn't work in the past, though. > > Maybe: > FreeBSD supports APM on certain machines. > Please look in the LINT (V4.x or the > NOTES (V5.x) kernel config file, > searching for the APM keyword. Further > information can be found in &man.apm.4;. > > FreeBSD 5.X and later support the > ACPI features found in most modern > hardware. Further information can be found in > &man.acpi.4;. If a system supports both > APM and ACPI, either > can be used. You will probably want to try both and use the > one which works best for your system. > > > In any case, the word "supports" in the second paragraph should be > changed to "support" for proper agreement with the subject. Thanks for the wordage, I changed the Q&A. -- Michael W. Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ "The cloak of anonymity protects me from the nuisance of caring." -Non Sequitur