Re: APM

Mike Jagdis (mike@toaster.roan.co.uk)
Mon, 13 Jan 1997 09:29:30 GMT

>I did get apm to function, but it wasn't the way i wanted. I set an
>inactivity timeout in the bios and after that period of time, the cpu
>did indeed downshift. *However*, when the cpu became non-inactive,
>the bios did not speed the cpu up. Apparently, the bios was simply
>monitoring things like key presses to determine inactivity.

There is generally a BIOS setup page that allows you to specify
which interrupts are permitted to wake up the system after it
has been dropped into suspend mode. You often need to configure this
because, for instance, you might want to wake up on modem serial
activity but not when your serial mouse drifts across the desktop.

Mike

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