Unable to get APM running on an Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi

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Hi list,

I simply can't get APM to work on this laptop.

It is a travelmate 4002WLMi (P-M 1.6) on which I've just installed 
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, and built a custom kernel with apm, apm_saver and 
acpi (also tried with only apm, apm+apm_saver, and now apm+apm_saver+acpi)

I had set the hints to disable ACPI and enable APM on /boot/device.hints 
(don't know the exact names now and I've just shut the laptop down) - 
This resulted in no /dev/apm and /dev/apmctl entries being created..

I tried changing the order of the statements (enable APM first then 
disable ACPI).. to no avail

I also tried enabling both, which obviously didn't work quite well :-)

apm_enable="YES" and apmd_enable="YES"  on /etc/rc.conf
apm_load="YES" on /boot/loader.conf

Still, /dev/apm*'s never show up. Except if I actually disable APM and 
enable ACPI instead, /dev/apm will show.. but no /dev/apmctl.

I'm new to the laptop world and I really would like to enable power 
saving features on this laptop.. I had managed to get est/estctrl 
running, and it was changing my CPU from 600 to 1600 ghz according to 
the load, but when I disable APM and enable ACPI this will cease working 
and the CPU will always run at  1600ghz. Also, acpiconf -i0 says device 
not configured..

As far as I was able to see, most battery monitoring stuff (integrated 
on KDE and all) will depend on APM.. So I'd really like to enable it!

Am I missing some step to get APM working? Or does this laptop just 
plain and simply doesn't support it ?
Please enlighten me.

Best regards,

Hugo