Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:28:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Glenn Becker <chexmix@burningclown.com> Cc: FreeBSD mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: power management question Message-ID: <20020103152742.S2739-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020102214504.GA23298@burningclown.com>
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Glenn Becker wrote: > Today I started wondering about battery-level monitoring. Apparently, > power management support is pretty flaky. I tried the suggested tactics for > getting the apm function to work (short of recompiling it into the kernel) > and no go. I guess my question is - is my only recourse to keep the thing > plugged in? well, what did you do? GENERIC ships with apm compiled in but disabled ... try enabling it in userconfig or /kernel.config. If it attaches okay, you'll see a boot message and 'apm' should give you battery state info. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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