On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> On 17-Nov-05, at 6:32 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
>> In message <Pine.NEB.4.63.0511171439340.8510@angelic.cynic.net>, Curt 
>> Sampson w
>> rites:
>>> 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?
>>> 
>> 
>> Use apm only.  Powerd requires ACPI, which (as far as I know) isn't
>> really useful yet on laptops, since you can't do suspend/resume.
>
> For what it's worth, I had suspend/resume (ACPI S1 and S3) working on my Dell 
> Latitude D600. -current doesn't provide a way to trigger a suspend, so here's 
> the (old) patch I used:
>
> 	http://www.invisible.ca/~jmcneill/netbsd/d600/acpi-sleep-sysctl.patch
>
> You can trigger a sleep with 'sysctl -w hw.acpi.sleepstate=<n>' where 'n' is 
> the ACPI sleepstate (1, 3, 4, etc).
>
> There was a bug in the D600 firmware where resume would fail to re-initialize 
> the display adapter if it entered S3 while undocked, but apart from that our 
> ACPI suspend/resume code works flawlessly. Hopefully others have better luck 
> on different hardware.

 	Would there be any sense in committing this as a (default
 	undefined) option to make it easier for people to play with
 	this stuff?

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