Error when trying to start 'apmd'

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 23:26:21 +1200
> From: Drew Broadley <drew at corrupt.co.nz>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org
> 
> $ apmd -d
> apmd[805]: start
> May  9 22:18:50 taz apmd[805]: start
> apmd: cannot open device file `/dev/apmctl': No such file or directory
> 
> I have compiled "option   apm" into my kernel and have apm enabled in my 
> rc.conf

Did you disable ACPI? APM and ACPI won't work together. It's one or the
other.

You need to have apm loaded (either by building it into the kernel or by
loading it from /boot/loader.conf) and ACPI disabled by either
/boot/loader.conf or /boot/device.hints for apmd to be usable. The line
would be something like:
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"

This is really not an ACPI question, so I have set followups to current at .
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634