Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:30:00 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> Cc: f-mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dell i5000e & apm Message-ID: <200108151730.f7FHU0R30909@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:04:12 EDT." <20010815100412.A4450@moo.holy.cow>
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> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:04:12 -0400 > From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. I'm very suspicious that this laptop has a bug in it's BIOS. My wife has one of these running Windows (not sure the flavor, but it came installed on the 5000e) and it has the same problem: the machine fails to resume from suspend quite often. Worse, you often have to pull the battery before you can get it to re-boot. So I'm not too sure that this is a FreeBSD issue. You might check the Dell web-site for possible BIOS upgrades. (I need to remember to suggest that my wife do this, as well.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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