Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 17:27:59 -0400 From: parv <parv_@yahoo.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: f-mobile <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dell i5000e & apm Message-ID: <20010815172759.A7382@moo.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <200108151730.f7FHU0R30909@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:30:00AM -0700 References: <20010815100412.A4450@moo.holy.cow> <200108151730.f7FHU0R30909@ptavv.es.net>
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this was, on the fateful occasion around Aug 15 13:30 -0400, sent by Kevin Oberman > > > 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. i got windows me w/ mine; there definitely was a bug w/ apm before the update as witnessed by linux users. question is if you would still have the same problem after the bios update issued in may. > You might check the Dell web-site for possible BIOS upgrades. (I need > to remember to suggest that my wife do this, as well.) i checked dell's site before writing, there has been only one apm update that i could find... http://support.us.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=R27593 -- so, do you like word games or scrabble? - parv To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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