Normally, nothing needs to be done beyond what the BIOS itself will do. Some change in the power management capabilities of the system was reported. It may have been caused by operation of some setup utility, or by the arrival or removal of some devices. This daemon issues a number of different log messages, most of which should be self explanatory. The messages emitted for battery status need some explanation, however.
Negative rates indicate charging.
This time is calculated by apmd itself. This particular information is provided with most messages from this daemon. APM BIOS 1.2 events, though it does not support some of the advanced features such as multiple batteries. Also, there is no interaction yet with ACPI support as found in newer PC hardware. Identifies the command to invoke when certain APM driver events are reported.