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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:44:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: ACPI and apm_saver?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021122114443.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DDE4D01.2010908@cvzoom.net>

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On 22-Nov-2002 Donn Miller wrote:
> ACPI works pretty well on my HP Pavilion Notebook.  But is it possible 
> to get the apm saver (apm_saver.ko) to work with ACPI? From what I 
> understand, acpi is a superset of apm, and is able to provide some 
> emulation of apm functionality.  So, by this principle, shouldn't 
> apm_saver work with acpi?
> 
> I've got these in my /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> apm_enable="YES"
> apmd_enable="YES"
> saver="apm"
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm sure I am.  But the standby mode 
> works great when I press the button or close the lid.

ACPI is very different from APM.  It provides some of the same
functionality from a user perspective, but it is not backwards
compatiable with APM at a hardware perspective, so apm_saver
will not work with ACPI.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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