Matthias;

You aren't alone. APM is totally non-functional for me right now. I've
noticed thins are getting worse, and I'm setting up for an intensive
debugging run shortly.

Perry

Matthias Drochner writes:
> When I boot a current kernel (on a desktop machine,
> Phoenix BIOS) I get the following:
> 
> [...]
> apm0 at mainbus0: Power Management spec V1.1
> APM power mgmt engage (device 1)
> :power management disabled (1)
> apm0: battery life expectancy 100%
> apm0: A/C state: on
> apm0: battery charge state: no battery
> apm0: estimated 0:00 minutes
> APM get event:power management disabled (1)
> [...]
> 
> and every second again:
> APM get event:power management disabled (1)
> 
> What's going wrong? The power management options in the
> BIOS are enabled (Win95 did at least switch off the power
> after shutdown).
> 
> I tried a call to
> apm_powmgt_enable(1);
> (which is #ifdef'd out in the current driver)
> 
> This gives:
> APM power management enable <apmbios enable>:unrecognized device ID (9)
> 
> any hints?
> Matthias Drochner