I have a lap-top with power management. Can FreeBSD take advantage of this?

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4.14. I have a lap-top with power management. Can FreeBSD take advantage of this?

Yes it can on certain machines. Please look in the LINT kernel config file under APM.

Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 2.X : Hardware compatibility : I have a lap-top with power management. Can FreeBSD take advantage of this?
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