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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


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