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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: laptop recommendations
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>[Dell Inspiron 5000e] One known problem is that apm support won't
>work under FreeBSD because of a bug in the BIOS. :-(

Is this the same as the bug in the Latitude CPx that locks up the
machine when suspending from X? I have a work-around for that.

Tony.
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/*
 * zzz.c: a wrapper around apm(8) that works on my dodgy laptop
 *
 * (C) 2000 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
 */

static const char *const cvsid =
"$Header: /cvs/fanf/zzz/zzz.c,v 1.1.1.1 2000/06/22 08:43:37 fanf Exp $";

#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

#include <machine/console.h>

#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <err.h>

int main() {
	int fd, vt, status;

	fd = open("/dev/vga", O_RDONLY);
	if(fd < 0) err(1, "open /dev/vga");
	if(ioctl(fd, VT_GETACTIVE, &vt) < 0)
		err(1, "ioctl VT_GETACTIVE");
	if(ioctl(fd, VT_ACTIVATE, 1) < 0)
		err(1, "ioctl VT_ACTIVATE");
	switch(fork()) {
	case -1:
		err(1, "fork");
	case 0:
		execl("/usr/sbin/apm", "apm", "-z", NULL);
		err(1, "exec apm -z");
	default:
		wait(&status);
		if(!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status))
			errx(1, "apm -z failed");
	}
	sleep(3);
	if(ioctl(fd, VT_ACTIVATE, vt) < 0)
		err(1, "ioctl VT_ACTIVATE");
	exit(0);
}


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