Subject: Re: Dell laptop & apm
To: NetBSD mailing list <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/04/2005 19:19:04
> I've just recently acquired a Dell Latitude D600 on which I'm running
> NetBSD. I first started with 2.0, but I've moved to -current recently. In
> both 2.0 and -current, it doesn't configure an apm(4) interface. I'm quite
> sure windows manages to do power management. I've wandered the BIOS
> settings to see if there is something there I need to flip.
>
> Has anyone else used the D600 and been able to run the apmd an get zzz and
> apm to work?
You need to boot a GENERIC_LAPTOP kernel.
Yasir