Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:48:14 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@ispro.net.tr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to powerdown? APM? or ACPI? Message-ID: <371C93AE.8ED830B@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904200730080.62969-100000@localhost>
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Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>
> well, the APM support is compiled in and FreeBSD
> is probing for it! but the problem, FreeBSD is not
> able to find any APM device on the system!
> well I have searched for this a lot on the net and
> found something called ACPI (I am not sure what it
> is yet though) maybe new intel boards support it only?
Hmm. I poked through the code a little bit, and couldn't make any
real sense of it, but I've never looked at APM before. The last
hacker to really work on it much appears to have been Poul Henning-
Kamp, phk@freebsd.org. You may want to ask him about what you're
seeing, and about ACPI.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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