Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2019 08:53:46 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: apm on amd64 (FreeBSD 12.1) Message-ID: <20191107085346.6e2fd7aa@ernst.home> In-Reply-To: <5ae77a59-81a4-881f-9f85-e2ad966b3e17@webweaving.org> References: <5ae77a59-81a4-881f-9f85-e2ad966b3e17@webweaving.org>
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On Wed, 6 Nov 2019 20:58:19 +0100 Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> wrote: > After a recent upgrade to 12.1 release - I noticed that > rc.d/apm is specific to i386; and cannot be enabled on amd64. > > Does that mean that AMD64 laptops no longer need APM for good > power management* ? Any man-page or 'updating' notes one can > study to understand ? > > *) As prior; enabling it on an Thinkpad X270 appeared to make > the battery last a lot longer during lengthy suspends. > apm seems to have been replaced by acpi(4). -- Gary Jennejohn
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