From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 5 12:22:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.xs4all.nl (smtp3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8419415517 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 12:22:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from plm@smtp3.xs4all.nl) Received: from localhost. (dc2-isdn39.dial.xs4all.nl [194.109.148.39]) by smtp3.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA13792 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:22:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from plm@localhost) by localhost. (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00209; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 21:22:11 +0200 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: recent apm changes From: Peter Mutsaers Date: 05 Aug 1999 07:27:01 +0200 Message-ID: <87n1w6hk62.fsf@muon.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Lines: 35 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, After Linux I gave FreeBSD a try again, when I saw some improvements to APM had been committed. I hoped for a real suspend mode, but alas. Now I'm wondering what makes the difference, and whether I could do it myself. Let me explain: I run my (desktop) computer in the living room. I don't want to shut it down all the time, but it must be 100% quiet when I'm not using it. In Linux, when suspend mode is activated (either through a short press on the power button or by the (BIOS) timer ), the disks also spin down (immediately, not waiting for their timer, which I disabled) and also the CPU fan and/or the FAN of the box switches off. In FreeBSD, when I activate suspend mode, I see the light on my computer blinking, indicating it has gone into suspend mode, but still there is no reduction in noise whatsoever. The disks keep spinning, the CPU fan (or whatever) too. I could activate the BIOS spindown timer on the HDD's, but I'd rather not (since then I also get spindowns while I'm normally working with the computer) but still the other fan will always continue to run. What can I do to change this behaviour? Can anyone explain what Linux (or Win95 for that matter) are doing to make it 100% quiet in suspend mode? Then I could give it a try to have FreeBSD do the same. Currently this prevents me from using FreeBSD alas. Thanks, -- Peter Mutsaers | Abcoude (Utrecht), | Trust me, I know plm@xs4all.nl | the Netherlands | what I'm doing. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message