Hi! > APM BIOS support will likely be removed from FreeBSD for FreeBSD 13. This > was once quite important for LAPTOP users. However, it is now no longer > relevant. It stopped being supported around the time that ACPI started to > be released for laptops. This was around the Pentium 200MHz laptop > generation, give or take. ACPI was released in 1996 to replace APM, and had > largely done so by 2000. As such, this is 20-year obsolete technology. I think I still use it to this day for all my laptops to check the battery status and put the laptop to sleep. The commands I use are apm and zzz, and they still work. What would be replacement commands ? > To that end, I'm looking for actual users of this APM that have used the > technology successfully in FreeBSD 12.0 or newer. I can experiment and even can provide you remote access to laptops of that kind. -- pi_at_opsec.eu +49 171 3101372 Now what ?Received on Sun Aug 30 2020 - 04:36:07 UTC
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