Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:14:30 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Latitude CPx, pccard, X & apm Message-ID: <200006230814.CAA95280@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:59:42 GMT." <200006222159.VAA09784@hand.dotat.at> References: <200006222159.VAA09784@hand.dotat.at>
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In message <200006222159.VAA09784@hand.dotat.at> Tony Finch writes: : (1) the pccard system seems rather inept at allocating interrupts; it : likes to choose irq3 first (which was sio1 until I disabled that : in the BIOS so that I could use my ethernet card) and then it : chooses irq5 which is : pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x125d, dev=0x1998) at 8.0 irq 5 : i.e. both these choices lead to IRQ conflicts! The free IRQs are : 8, 13, and 15. Yes. Agreed. : (2) the various bits of BIOS magic (dropping into setup and the APM : functionality) only work in text mode, not in X. The whole machine : seems to lock *hard* when attempting to enter the BIOS from X, to : the extent that I have to unplug the AC power and the batteries in : order to recover control. Yes. You have to have special support in the X server to do this. At least that's my understanding. I could be wrong. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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