apm_enable_power_management(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 apm_enable_power_management(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to section 9 of the Kernel API Manual — this one's called apm_enable_power_management, and it's genuinely one of the shortest little icon pages ever, so we're gonna get through it together, no stress 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

apm_enable_power_management — the function that turns BIOS APM power management on (or off, she's versatile like that) 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int apm_enable_power_management (int enable );

that's it. that's the whole signature. she's tiny but she's doing her job ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • enable — literally just a yes/no situation, bestie. it's the "do we want this or not" switch. 🔥

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does she actually do? she enables or disables the APM BIOS power services. that's the whole vibe check. you pass in your yes/no and the BIOS power services get flipped accordingly. lowkey powerful for such a small function, ngl 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

if you're the kind of person who clicks every link (respect, honestly), the kernel file lives here: ./arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c — and here's the whole friend group of related pages, all of them, not skipping a single one 💖

💀 real talk though — APM is old-school energy. it's still in the tree, so it still gets a manpage, and that's iconic of it honestly.

okay that's the page!! quick sign-off for the record: this one's sourced from ./arch/x86/kernel, dated October 2026, and it goes by the very cute full name apm_enable_power_management(9) 🧚‍♀️💜

bye bestie, go forth and power-manage responsibly ⭐🔋

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