Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:55:24 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RTC (stat clock) does not generate interrupts ?!?! Message-ID: <388F18EC.21069164@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001262209290.2165-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > > Definitely, the Dell Inspiron 3700 C433GT is one of those machines > > that have a broken statclock. I would like to know what does this mean, > > but, anyway, these are the facts. Rats. > > It meant that statclock interrupts woke up the system, so the system > couldn't stay suspended if the statclock were used. Nohing to do with > your problem. > Thank you very much for your answer. I am not worried about the consequences of a missing statclock, but, simply as a matter of curiosity: if the apm driver were modified to stop the statclock (or, perhaps, disable its interrupts) just before suspending, and restart it just after resuming the system... couldn't this solve the "broken statclock" problem? -- JMA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- José Mª Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del País Vasco | mailto:jmas@FreeBSD.org Dpto. de Electricidad y Electrónica | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-946012479 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-946013071 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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