Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT)

[Jesse Guardiani]

Peter Schuller wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>> the extra battery works on my T30 with apm
> 
> Ok. I'll see if I can get APM to work. When I once tried disabling ACPI
> (by choosing the appropriate option at the standard boot menu) it wouldn't
> boot at all, but hang a bit into the process (before starting any userland
> apps).
> 
>> no. is is either apm or acpi. if you enable both, acpi will detect apm
>> running and disable it, as far as I know.
> 
> Hmm. So not even just typing 'apm' and getting battery info should work if
> apm is disabled?

This always works for me too under ACPI. It's just the kernel module/daemon
that won't load with ACPI. I think the apm command itself uses a /dev/ device
to gather battery info.

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