Actually I am running netbsd.GENERIC_LAPTOP off of the distribution CD. The
device /dev/apmctl is present, but when I try to sleep with the 'apm -S'
command, apm complains with a "cannot contact APM daemon at socket
/var/run/apmdev: No such file or directory"

Do I just symlink the two files or is there some other procedure for
sockets? The man page indicates that the file must be present but I do not
know how to properly create it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian A. Seklecki [mailto:lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org]
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 3:07 PM
To: Rose, Brian
Cc: Netbsd-Users (E-mail)
Subject: Re: APM





On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 @ 2:50pm (-0400), Rose, Brian wrote:

RB>
RB> When I installed NetBSD 1.5.2 onto my laptop, it did not create a
RB> /var/run/apmdev for the APM interface. How do I create one?
RB>
RB>

you mean /dev/apmctl ? yea apm isn't in the GENERIC kernel.  roll a custom
kernel. and set "apmd=YES" in /etc/rc.conf

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/power-mgmt/

-lava