In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Vladimir B. Grebensch
ikov" さんいわく:
>
>acpidump - dumps a lot of information
>
>But there are some problems with using acpi:
>
>1st: it seems that acpi not emulates apm interface (/dev/{apm,apmctl}) so
> apm-based utilites don't work (apmd, zzz, monitors and so)
>
> Is it planned to have apm interface through acpi or not ?
> If I compile both in kernel - apm code not works.
At least I don't have plan to imprement apmctl.There is more appropreate
way: kqueue. That is undergoing project. Imprementing ome apm-compatible
interface may be good thing.
>
>2nd: Where I can get more info about acpimodes, from man acpiconf(8):
> -s type
> Enters the specified sleep mode. Recognized types are 1, 2, 3,
> 4, and 5.
> in man acpiconf(8) there are no mention about mode "4b "
> I have tried some:
> 1,2 - do nothing
> 5 - turn off machine without proper shutdown
>
>3rd: I have tried couple utilites from http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/acpi/
> batt.c - works after patching, but if no battary present on laptop
> shows 1 battary with unrealistic numbers
> health.c - I can't make it work - it seems it lacks of defines in kerne
>l
health.c will not work because Thermal zone driver has no ioctl
interface for now.
But there is sysctl interface instead.
> May be there are some other utilites for acpi ?
User interface of ACPI itself is not so fixed.
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