On 22-Nov-2002 Donn Miller wrote: > ACPI works pretty well on my HP Pavilion Notebook. But is it possible > to get the apm saver (apm_saver.ko) to work with ACPI? From what I > understand, acpi is a superset of apm, and is able to provide some > emulation of apm functionality. So, by this principle, shouldn't > apm_saver work with acpi? > > I've got these in my /etc/rc.conf: > > apm_enable="YES" > apmd_enable="YES" > saver="apm" > > Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I'm sure I am. But the standby mode > works great when I press the button or close the lid.
ACPI is very different from APM. It provides some of the same functionality from a user perspective, but it is not backwards compatiable with APM at a hardware perspective, so apm_saver will not work with ACPI. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
