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Note also here that this is a legacy daemon that is more or less deprecated.

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.\" $NetBSD: apmd.8,v 1.20 2008/09/25 22:44:51 reed Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: apmd.8,v 1.21 2010/03/20 09:22:37 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" Copyright (c) 1996, 2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
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.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.Dd May 16, 2004
.Dd March 20, 2010
.Dt APMD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
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.Op Fl f Ar devname
.Ek
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
monitors the advanced power management (APM) pseudo-device, acting on
daemon monitors the Advanced Power Management
.Pq Tn APM
pseudo-device, acting on
signaled events and upon user requests as sent by the
.Xr apm 8
utility.
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.Nm
daemon is only installed on supported platforms.
.Pp
.Em The
.Nm
.Em is largely deprecated.
Modern systems supporting
.Tn ACPI
should rely on
.Xr acpi 4 ,
.Xr powerd 8 ,
and the
.Xr envsys 4
framework instead.
.Pp
For suspend and standby request events delivered by the BIOS, or via
.Xr apm 8 ,
.Nm
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Suspends are announced with two high tones.
.Pp
.Nm
periodically polls the APM driver for the current power state.
periodically polls the
.Tn APM
driver for the current power state.
If the battery charge level changes substantially or the external power
status changes, the new status is logged.
The polling rate defaults to
once per 10 minutes, but may be specified using the
once per 10 minutes, but this may be altered by using the
.Fl t
command-line flag.
.Pp
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.Xr speaker 4 ,
.Xr apm 8 ,
.Xr syslogd 8
.Sh REFERENCES
Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS Interface Specification (revision
1.1), Intel Corporation and Microsoft Corporation.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
daemon appeared in
.Nx 1.3 .