From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 11:04:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01911 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.93.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01858 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:04:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA28364 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:26:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:26:01 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: IBM thinkpad 560E, after BIOS upgrade Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A little while ago, a friend of mine dropped my 560E notebook, so we returned it to IBM for repairs, which were thankfully under warranty (estimated repair cost: several hundred dollars :). However, when they repaired it, they performed a BIOS upgrade on it. Ever since then, APM has been acting up. The specific behavior I observe is that everything goes fine unless the screen is powered down for some reason. For example, during suspension or after a period of inactivity. It used to be that the screen would power back up again, either from console or X windows, in the event that the notebook was woken up, or a mouse click occurred, etc. Now the screen never powers back up. While I use AccelX, I also observe the problem when not in X Windows, and disabling support for power management in XiG appears not to help. I have not tried disabling apm support in the OS--given that it used to work, it would be great if it still did (I also like suspending my notebook :). Does anyone have any pointers as to things I could try, or should I be contacting IBM and pleaing for a BIOS un-upgrade? Thanks in advance, Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message