Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:15:41 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: f-mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: dell i5000e & apm Message-ID: <XFMail.010815091541.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010815100412.A4450@moo.holy.cow>
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On 15-Aug-01 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? acpi is only in -current, but it does mostly work. I didn't have problems with apm on my i5000e after the BIOS upgrade, but I can't remember if I ever tried multiple suspend/resume cycles. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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