That's what I figured as far as APM support. On i386 machines, APM 
works fairly well under FreeBSD and OpenBSD as long as the APM hardware 
is pretty standard (i.e. my Dell Inspiron laptop designed to run Linux 
works fine while my Sony VAIO laptop which is closely tied to Windows 
and ACPI doesn't always work quite right). I have no experience with 
NetBSD on i386 laptops so I really am not sure. That's good to know 
that battery % is available.

Bryan

On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 00:15 US/Pacific, Charlie Allom wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 11:27:41PM -0800, Bryan Vyhmeister wrote:
>> I am looking at running NetBSD on a PowerBook. I would specifically
>> like to run it on a PB 2400 if possible. I know the PB 2400 is
>> supported but I was just wondering if anyone has any recommendations
>> about the PB 2400 or a PowerBook that works very well with NetBSD. I
>> actually have not acquired a PB 2400 yet and if it does not work all
>> that well I will get something that is supported better. Thank you for
>> your time.
>
> Note that APM in powerbooks doesn't include sleep/wake functions. we
> have some OpenBSD code to display battery %, and that's about it.
>
> Does sleep/wake work on i386?
>
>   C.
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