Unable to get APM running on an Acer Travelmate 4002WLMi
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user at celeritystorm.com
Fri Dec 24 20:38:55 PST 2004
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
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