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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: APM support? (was Re: Laptop "falls asleep") Date: 15 Apr 1996 04:23:55 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4ksj0r$ah0@helena.MT.net> References: <3169699C.167E@whistler.net> <3169D7A3.446B@whistler.net> <DpM5w9.1tL@yedi.iaf.nl> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17477 comp.os.linux.setup:50847 In article <DpM5w9.1tL@yedi.iaf.nl>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote: >Pat <patr@whistler.net> writes: > >>Hi: the problem was that the machine was into "power-saving" mode where >>it would use APM and fall asleep during the install (no keybd activity). > >>Apparently there in no support for APM in freeBSD (or on the installer >>disk itself)? Not in 2.1R. >>(correct me if I'm wrong) > >Assuming you mean 2.1R it does not have builtin APM support. A >couple of FreeBSD hackers from Japan are very busy with getting APM >support into the next FreeBSD release. Actually, I've been doing most of the APM work, and I live up in Montana, land of the Freemen and the Unabomber. :) The next 'official' release of FreeBSD will have much better APM support, but I doubt it will have PC-CARD support in the base release. I will however make sure that PC-CARD support will be available as an easy to install patch to the base system. Nate -- nate@sneezy.sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.sri.MT.net | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth