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  From: Craig Markwardt <craigm@pcasun3.gsfc.nasa.gov>
  To  : Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
  Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 20:22:35 -0400 (EDT)

Re: apmd not triggering AC online/offline

Jeffrey W. Baker writes:
 > I enabled debugging, and the kernel is not receiving the power status
 > events.  *sigh*.  Is it possible to setup apmd so that it periodically
 > polls for changed power status?  I launched it with "apmd  -c 1" but that
 > does not have any effect.  Wouldn't be difficult to modify the program to
 > do this, I can write a shell script with the equivalent functionality in a
 > few seconds.

It is possible.  Go for it :-)

The only risk I see is there would then be two different ways to get
"change power" events then.  It would be probably undesireable to
process each, for people whose BIOS works fine.

But perhaps it makes more sense for you to do it in a script for your
limited purposes...

Craig