In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scott Long writes: : On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 10:50:17AM +0200, Georg-W. Koltermann wrote: : > Hi, : > : > I'm wondering how I should handle APM now that ACPI has basically : > taken over power management responsibility. : : APM and ACPI are mutually exclusive from what I understand. You should : remove the apm device from your kernel config.
I've been able to run both with my VAIO. However, my VAIO hangs randomly with ACPI enabled (even when i have apm disable). : > It seems I still need to configure APM so that /dev/apm is there and : > battery monitoring utilities like the GNOME battery_applet can work. : : Battery, temp, etc, can be monitored via the hw.acpi sysctl tree. : Someone will have to do the required conversion to the various APM : utilities is GNOME and whatever else. Hmmm. That's good to know. I didn't know that until now. I'll have to reboot my vaio to see how good/bad this information is. : > I also was able to suspend and resume my machine (DELL Inspiron 7500) : > with APM being configured (and ACPI being active by default). Sound : > is dead after a resume, : : What sound card? : : > PCMCIA is dead after a couple of resumes, : : Resource leak? Warner? I don't see this with my Inspiron 8000, so I don't care :-). Seriously, I'm still running stable on my i8000. I'll be cutting over in a little bit (I can dual boot it now), so that will be less of an issue going forward. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
