APM(8) BSD System Manager's Manual APM(8)NAME
apm, zzz — control the APM BIOS and display its information
SYNOPSIS
apm [-ablstzZ] [-d enable] [-e enable] [-h enable] [-r delta]
zzz
DESCRIPTION
The apm utility controls the Intel / Microsoft APM (Advanced Power Man‐
agement) BIOS and displays the current status of APM on laptop PCs. The
zzz utility suspends the system by controlling APM.
The following options are available for apm (no options are available for
zzz). If no options are specified, apm displays information and current
status of APM in verbose mode. If multiple display options are given,
the values are displayed one per line in the order given here.
-a Display the current AC-line status as an integer value. The val‐
ues 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the “off-line” state, “on-line”
state or “backup power” state, respectively.
-b Display an integer value reflecting the current battery status.
The values 0, 1, 2, 3, correspond to the “high” status, “low”
status, “critical” status, “charging” status respectively.
-d enable
Disable/enable suspending of the display separately from a normal
suspend using the boolean value for enable. This feature seems
to not work on many different laptops, including the Libretto
30CT and 50CT.
-e enable
Enable or disable APM functions of the computer, depending on the
boolean enable argument.
-h enable
Depending on the boolean value of enable, enable or disable the
HLT instruction in the kernel context switch routine. These
options are not necessary for almost all APM implementations, but
for some implementations whose “Idle CPU” call executes both CPU
clock slowdown and HLT instruction, -h false is necessary to pre‐
vent the system from reducing its peak performance. See apm(4)
for details.
-l Display the remaining battery percentage. If your laptop does
not support this function, 255 is displayed.
-r delta
Enable the resume wakeup timer, if the laptop supports it. This
doesn't actually suspend the laptop, but if the laptop is sus‐
pended, and it supports resume from suspend, then it will be
resumed after delta seconds (from when you run this command, not
from when you suspend).
-s Display the status of the APM support as an integer value. The
values 0 and 1 correspond to the “disabled” state or “enabled”
state respectively.
-t Display the estimated remaining battery lifetime in seconds. If
it is unknown, -1 is displayed.
-Z Transition the system into standby mode. This mode uses less
power than full power mode, but more than suspend mode. Some
laptops support resuming from this state on timer or Ring Indica‐
tor events. The output of apm tells what your laptop claims to
support.
-z Suspend the system. It is equivalent to zzz.
NOTESapmconf(8) has been merged in apm and thus apm replaces all of its func‐
tionality.
SEE ALSOapm(4)AUTHORS
Tatsumi Hosokawa ⟨hosokawa@jp.FreeBSD.org⟩
BUGS
Some APM implementations do not support parameters needed by apm. On
such systems, apm displays them as unknown.
Some APM implementations cannot handle events such as pushing the power
button or closing the cover. On such implementations, the system must be
suspended only by using apm or zzz.
BSD November 1, 1994 BSD
