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     APM(8)                                                     APM(8)

     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 inter-
          face to the APM 1.2 BIOS (see apm(3)) device (the default is
          to try /dev/apm, followed by #P/apm).  If a service is spec-
          ified, 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 device 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.

     APM(8)                                                     APM(8)

     SEE ALSO
          acpi(8)