Unable to get APM working -- help!

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Date: 12/25/04

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    Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 12:50:39 -0600 (CST)
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    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 managed to get est/estctrl running, and it was
    changing my CPU from 600 to 1600 ghz according to the load, but when I
    disabled APM and enabled ACPI this ceases to work 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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