Re: FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba Tecra A4

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 08:18 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2006 12:22:02 +0300
> Yousef Raffah <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I have disabled acpi and enabled apm in my kernel as
> > # Power management support (see NOTES for more options)
> > device          apm
> > # Add suspend/resume support for the i8254.
> > device          pmtimer
> > 
> > This what happens when I run apmd in debug mode:
> > 
> > # apmd -d -v
> > apmd[15918]: start
> > apmd: cannot open device file `/dev/apm': No such file or directory
> > 
> > How can I have /dev/apm?
> 
> [...]
> Ian is right, but u may want to disable acpi too:
> /boot/device.hints:
> 
> #FOR ACPI
> ### APM vs ACPI
> hint.apm.0.disabled="1"
> hint.acpi.0.disabled="0"
> 
> #FOR APM
> ### APM vs ACPI
> hint.apm.0.disabled="0"
> hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
> 
Unfortunately that didn't help, dmesg still doesn't show anything
related to apm and there is no /dev/apm yet, I even tried to disable
acpi from the BIOS but there is no option to do so. :( 

> (of course, the rest of the lines in device.hits shouldn't need to be changed.
What else can we do?

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Sincerely,
Yousef Raffah
Senior Systems Administrator
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