From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 9:14:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail48.fg.online.no (mail48-s.fg.online.no [148.122.161.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8348637B71B for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 09:14:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aeielsen@nextra.com) Received: from venom (ti18a66-0071.dialup.online.no [130.67.230.71]) by mail48.fg.online.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA17946 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 19:14:19 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <000f01c0b663$c33323a0$ca5cfea9@venom> From: "Arnfinn Aas Eielsen" To: Subject: APM on FreeBSD 4.2 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 18:14:09 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_000A_01C0B620.8DA54080" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C0B620.8DA54080 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello I have just installed FreeBSD 4.2 on my "Toshiba 4000cds" laptop = computer. Since it does not have unlimited battery capacity I'm trying = to figure out how to use the APM functionality in FreeBSD. I have used = Amigas and Macs all my life so unix is a new world to me, and I'm not = very good at this configuring and setting up things in textfiles (yet). So this is the story: I ran the "apm -z" and I got the message "apm:can't open /dev/apm: = device not configured". I ran "apmd -v -d" and I got the message "apmd:cannot open device file = /dev/apmctl: Device not configured". I looked in the /dev directory and there was a file there called "apm" = and another one called "apmctl". Just in case i ran "./MAKEDEV apm" and = "./MAKEDEV apmctl" in hope that that might do some magic, which it = didn't. I looked in the "rc.conf" file which says: apm_enable=3D"YES" apmd_enable=3D"YES" apmd_flags=3D"-d -v" Then I scratched my head, and after that I looked in the configuration = file for the GENERIC kernel, and it said that apm was enabled. I even = tried to make my own configuration file and kernel and I actually made = it work too (and thought to myself that I was getting pretty good at = these unix things), but after booting the new kernel the problems was = still there. So now I don't know what to do. And any help would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Arnfinn Aas Eielsen ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C0B620.8DA54080 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hello

I have just installed FreeBSD 4.2 on my = "Toshiba=20 4000cds" laptop computer. Since it does not have unlimited battery = capacity I'm=20 trying to figure out how to use the APM functionality in FreeBSD. I have = used=20 Amigas and Macs all my life so unix is a new world to me, and I'm not = very good=20 at this configuring and setting up things in textfiles = (yet).

So this is the story:
I ran the "apm = -z" and I got the message "apm:can't open /dev/apm: device not=20 configured".

I ran "apmd -v -d" and I got the = message=20 "apmd:cannot open device file /dev/apmctl: Device not = configured".

I looked in the /dev directory and = there was a file=20 there called "apm" and another one called "apmctl". Just in case i ran=20 "./MAKEDEV apm" and "./MAKEDEV apmctl" in hope that that might do = some=20 magic, which it didn't.

I looked in the "rc.conf" file=20 which says:

= apm_enable=3D"YES"

= apmd_enable=3D"YES"

apmd_flags=3D"-d = -v"

Then I scratched my head, and after = that I looked=20 in the configuration file for the GENERIC kernel, and it said that = apm was=20 enabled. I even tried to make my own configuration file and kernel and I = actually made it work too (and thought to myself that I was getting = pretty good=20 at these unix things), but after booting the new kernel the problems was = still=20 there.

So now I don't know what to = do.

And any help would be greatly=20 appreciated.

Many thanks,

Arnfinn Aas = Eielsen

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