Hi,

I am using -current with ACPI on my Sony PictureBook.  Battery, AC Adapter and Lid
all work wonderfully.  I can close the lid in X and the screen will turn off.  I can
reopen it, and it will turn back on...no problems at all.  I push the power button,
the laptop shuts down clean in under one second.  I'm using ACPI though, not APM. 
So you might want to give that a try.  I tried to enable the ACPI thermal zone stuff
in the kernel, but that caused a few problems (the keyboard stops working for some
odd reason).

Now all I need is a X app that will show me battery life using ACPI....

Once upon a time Arnaud Bailly proclaimed:
> Hi to all,
> I am new to NetBSD, having decided to try it on a laptop Dell Latitude C640.
> I managed to install everything fine, enjoying in the process the package/port
> system which seems to me the most intelligent way to deal with OpenSource
> software install in a consistent way.
>
> I am quite happy with my NetBSD box but I still have some problems
>  with the power management system. I have tried
> APM but I get garbled screen under X when I reopen the lid. With Linux,
> It seems that you could use ACPI to better effects with customized scripts
> managing events but I could not find documentation on ACPI.
> I would appreciate some help or pointers on this issue.
>
> Arnaud
>