On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:16:03 -0000 (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using OpenBSD 4.0 as it was released some four months ago. > > Nice to hear what you're saying but I don't really understand > something. From your words I've got the feeling that you say: before > my laptop could not work with apm and now yes. > I thought apm is a thing that is inherent to the laptop and not to > the OS. Could you or somebody else shed a bit of light on this? Is > there any hope that my laptop will have apm support in obsd 4.1 if it > hasn't now?
Newer laptops forgo legacy apm controls and rely an acpi for power management instead. In -current (after 4.0 was released) a massive amount of acpi code was imported which makes apm work through the acpi system calls. Chances are that your laptop will have much better apm support in openbsd 4.1 than it has right now. However, to be sure of that now is the time to help the devs test this new code. If you feel up to it you can always install a snapshot and see how this new code works for you. Should you give it a go, then don't forget to start your apmd with "-f /dev/acpi". Good luck. // nick
