Messages in this thread | | | Subject | apm driver grief | Date | Sat, 28 Dec 1996 11:21:27 PST | From | "Marty Leisner" <> |
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I queried a while ago why isn't the apm driver a module...
the answer was it causes problems unloading it.
I propose making APM an unloadable module...once loaded, it can't be unloaded.
With 2.0.27, compiling apm (for 4 machines, one a laptop), I noticed grief with the three desktop machines: 1) one had a "Green" nokia monitor...running X put it into "Power-save mode" (apm read 0%) 2) On another machine, halting sometimes produced panics... tracking the addresses it was in apm_get_event.
I have the apm spec I have to look at...I really am looking at more "useful" apm support (running win95 on a toshiba laptop, we can define settings for powers/battery mode which includes: cpu speed (high/low) monitor hi/lo various sleep times on components (disk, processor)
I haven't seen how freebsd does it, but it appears to have more complete apm support.
marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Don't confuse education with schooling. Milton Friedman to Yogi Berra
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