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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 2002 13:03:36 -0500
From:      David Syphers <dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
To:        Matt Snow <drama@slakin.net>, Guillaume <amyfoub@videotron.ca>
Cc:        jogegabsd <jogegabsd@intelnet.net.gt>, "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>, jogegabsd <jogegabsd@myrealbox.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: APM not even a sign
Message-ID:  <200206221303.36288.dsyphers@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20020621211925.D61146-100000@seven.slakin.net>
References:  <20020621211925.D61146-100000@seven.slakin.net>

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On Friday 21 June 2002 11:22 pm, Matt Snow wrote:
> I went through hell with this and found the solution on accident.
> 
> make sure you have the following:
> 
> in KERNEL:
> device              apm0    at nexus?
> device		    dc0
> 
> in your /etc/rc.conf:
> apm_enable="YES"
> apmd_enable="YES"
> 
> recompile your kernel and install it and you should be good to go.
> I hope this works for you, it worked with 4.5 on my vaio.

That you need apm0 and apm_enable is clear from the FreeBSD docs (e.g. 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html).  
That you also need apmd_enable doesn't seem to be mentioned there, but is 
clear to anyone who reads /etc/defaults/rc.conf (as everyone should at least 
once).  The "device dc0" makes no sense at all.  This is not a valid device 
in -stable (LINT does not list it).  Device dc (without the 0) is a PCI NIC, 
which you may need to access the internet, but not to use APM.

-David

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