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Date:      Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:14:44 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Rev. Joe Doyle" <doyle@nebcorp.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: APM on IBM TP240
Message-ID:  <20010617161444.D29315@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010616165112.C31018@nebcorp.com>; from doyle@nebcorp.com on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:51:12PM -0700
References:  <20010616165112.C31018@nebcorp.com>

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On Saturday, 16 June 2001 at 16:51:12 -0700, Rev. Joe Doyle wrote:
> 	I have an IBM Thinkpad 240 running FBSD 4.3-STABLE (May 5th).
> Prior to this, I was running 4.1-RELEASE, and APM worked great.  However,
> I now get:
>
> nebkor:~# apm
> apm: can't open /dev/apm: Device not configured
>
> nebkor:~> uname -a
> FreeBSD nebkor.frotz.net 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #0: Sat May  5
> 23:32:33 GMT 2001     root@.tellme.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TP240  i386
>
> nebkor:~> ls -l /dev/apm
> crw-rw-r--  1 root  operator   39,   0 May 20 06:16 /dev/apm
>
> 	I'm attaching my kernel config.  The oddest thing is that
> hibernation works; when I close the laptop, it goes to sleep.  Does anyone
> have any clue?

Well, it doesn't take long to search for 'apm' in your kernel config
and find:

> # Power management support (see LINT for more options)
> device		apm0    at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management

Does that word 'disable' give you a clue?  Remove it, or enable
manually in UserConfig.

Greg
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