Subject: Re: Thinkpad T42 Power Management
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/17/2005 04:11:47
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1) Powerd is for ACPI. You can run with ACPI, however, the power managent i=
s=20
limited. I'd recommend using apm.

2) With apm:

a) You'll want:

options         APM_DISABLE_INTERRUPTS=3D0

set in your kernel. Otherwise, you find that you're unable to wake it up at=
=20
times.

b) You don't need to do anything else. Or, you can run apmd.

I'll send you a copy of the kernel configuration file I use if you'd like.


On Wednesday 16 November 2005 10:44 pm, Curt Sampson wrote:
> So, I finally made my choice and went out and got a Thinkpad T42.
> It seems to be working fine so far, though I've not tried X11 yet.
>
> However, I'm not at all familiar with any kind of power management, and
> I'm wondering what I should be using on this machine. Do I just start
> apmd and powerd in rc.conf, and go with the manual pages from there?
> Does anybody have any handy scripts or anything like that?
>
> cjs

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John R. Shannon
john@johnrshannon.com
john.r.shannon@saic.com
john.r.shannon@us.army.mil
shannonjr@NetBSD.org

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