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Date:      Sat, 10 Nov 2001 10:09:46 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: APM on Dell Latitude C800 
Message-ID:  <200111101809.fAAI9kd25609@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Nov 2001 18:39:01 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111091736000.6474-100000@geographos.astro.washington.edu> 

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> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 18:39:01 -0800 (PST)
> From: Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a couple of questions:
> 
> 1. FreeBSD suspends (I guess to memory) when lid is closed. But kernel
> does not see apm0 and apmd does not run -- what could be the reason?
> 
> # apmd -d
> apmd[470]: start
> apmd: cannot open device file `/dev/apm': Device not configured
> # dmesg | grep apm 
> # grep apm /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC 
> device          apm0    at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management
> # ls -l /dev/apm*
> crw-rw-r--  1 root  operator   39,   0 Nov  9 15:54 /dev/apm
> crw-rw----  1 root  operator   39,   8 Nov  9 15:54 /dev/apmctl

You need to either remove the 'disable' in the config and rebuild the
kernel or add 'en apm0' to /boot/kernel.conf.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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