From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 11:58:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA05032 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from novera-bh.novera.com (novera-bh.novera.com [205.181.37.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA05026 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:58:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeffa@novera.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by novera-bh.novera.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) id OAA03433 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:58:28 -0500 Received: from 200.0.0.60 by novera-bh.novera.com via smap (3.2) id xma003431; Thu, 30 Oct 97 14:58:26 -0500 Received: from novera.com by epic.novera.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA24245; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:53:46 -0500 Message-ID: <3458E6FA.67B04DAB@novera.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 14:58:50 -0500 From: Jeffrey Anuszczyk Reply-To: jeffa@novera.com Organization: Novera Software, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Question about power management Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I noticed that V2.2.2 contains support for APM. I'm currently using my FreeBSD as a server for ISDN and disk (samba). Since I have multiple systems always on I thought I could use this to reduce my overall power consumption (yea I get amusing electric bills :-) That said I configured my system bios to specify the standby time but I disable the suspend time. I want to slow the CPU down, spin down the disk, etc, but I don't want to suspend the system. Unfortunately the systems insists on suspending. Yea all I have to do is touch the keyboard to unsuspend... but since this is a server it doesn't have a keyboard, monitor or mouse. Since I've been unable to figure this out I've been forced to disable apm. Is there anyway to configure this to work as I want? Thanks for any help! - Jeff