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NAME
apm - Advanced Power Management 1.2 BIOS interface
SYNOPSIS
(in plan9.ini) apm0=
bind -a '#P' /dev
aux/apm [ -d device ] [ -m mountpoint ] [ -s service ]
DESCRIPTION
Aux/apm presents at mountpoint (default /mnt/apm) an interface to the
APM 1.2 BIOS (see apm(3)) device (the default is to try /dev/apm, fol‐
lowed by #P/apm). If a service is specified, the interface will be
posted at /srv/service as well.
The directory contains the following files.
battery
Contains one line for each battery in the system. Each line
lists three fields: the status (a string, one of unknown, high,
low, critical, or charging), the percent charge remaining, and
an estimate of the amount of time left in seconds. If either or
both of the last two are unknown, the corresponding field will
be zero.
ctl The ctl file is used to set power management modes for various
parts of the system. Control messages are of the form ``device
verb,'' where device is one of system, display, storage, lpt,
eia, network, and pcmcia, and verb is one of enable, disable,
standby, off and on. Enable and disable control whether power
management is active for the device, while standby puts the de‐
vice into standby mode and on brings it back to full power.
event Reads from this file will block until an APM event has occurred.
A large enough read is guaranteed to return an integral number
of textual event descriptions, one per line.
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/aux/apm.c
/acme/bin/Battery
BUGS
The verbs suspend and off should be supported but doing so requires
nontrivial help from the kernel.
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