Re: Inspiron 7K and APM

On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:16:19PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> FWIW, I have been using
> 
> device          apm0    at nexus? flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management
> 
> on my Inspirons, and it has worked fine on my 3500 from 3.3 to 4.7.
> (I haven't gotten around to 5.0 yet, but may want to run it on my
> brand new 4150. For now, the above works fine on this one too.)

Well I have nothing left to lose: I'll try it in a couple of days (after
my last exam).

> No, that only indicates a missing device file.  Fix by going to /dev
> and running ./MAKEDEV apm (you may wish to do ./MAKEDEV apmctl too).

The 5 series uses devfs, so device files are created dynamically. If you
go into the source of apm(4) you'll see that upon initialization, it
calls the make_dev() kernel function call which tells the devfs system
to create a /dev entry.

-- 
David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well 
under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI

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