Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:25:42 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: f-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dell i5000e & apm Message-ID: <3B7A8666.66F00D81@mitre.org> References: <20010815100412.A4450@moo.holy.cow>
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parv wrote: > > it has been long tome since i posted here... > > is there a soul here who knows if freebsd 4-stable on dell inspiron > 5000e can survive more than one "stand by/suspend" cycles, measured in > minutes, w/o hard reboots? > > last time i tried, when dell issued an bios-apm update, around may 6 > 2001 w/ then current 4-stable version, the exercise was in futility. > > and, david wolfskil, in thread "Battery recall affecting some Dell > Inspiron 5000-series laptops", suggested that power management might > have been done by acpi instead of apm. > > is that true, or close to it? is acpi functioning in 4-stable now? > > would it be reasonable to assume that if i don't find any '*acpi*' > file in /usr/src (updated yesterday) then there won't be any such > functionality either? There is no ACPI support in -stable. I don't think it's even working correctly in -current yet. ACPI is a nasty beast, you have to get the entire spec implemented before any part of it really works. It's big and it's nasty and it's not supported by FreeBSD at this time. Sorry. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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