[redirected to port-i386, it's not a generic issue]
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Pelley <mike@pelley.com> writes:

Mike> I have a PC with an ATX power supply.  I would like to keep NetBSD from
Mike> calling the BIOS CPU idle function.  In the man page apm(4), it mentions
Mike> "The APM driver may be adjusted with several configuration options:
Mike> APM_NO_IDLE ..." which sounds like exactly what I'm looking for.  I just
Mike> don't know how to access this configuration option.

It's a kernel configuration option, add a line like
	options	APM_NO_IDLE
to your kernel config, rebuild the kernel (config, clean, depend, build)
and boot the new kernel.

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