Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:13:30 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: suspend problems with Dell Inspiron 3700 Message-ID: <388EC8CA.4FAE985@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <388A3E30.5E17C0A6@we.lc.ehu.es>
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"Jose M. Alcaide" wrote: > > Most of the time, APM suspend simply does not work. I compiled a kernel with > APM_DEBUG, and I cannot see nothing wrong. Simply, the machine does not go > into suspend state. I tried both "zzz" and the suspend hot key with identical > results. Surprisingly, the first two or three days after I received the laptop > and installed FreeBSD on it, APM suspend worked fine (even S2D), but it went > worse in the following days (I got the laptop two weeks ago). I left a small > Windows partition, and APM suspend/resume always works under Windows98. > I post this message for future searchs in the mail archives. My conclusion is that the Dell Inspiron 3700 C433GT is one on those machines which have a broken statclock. I don't why, but these are the facts. The "solution" for the APM suspend not working (which only happens when the RTC is generating IRQ8s) is the activation of the flag 0x20 for the apm driver (as stated in LINT). Apart from profiling, I don't know what other system features will be lost because of the missing statclok... -- 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-mobile" in the body of the message
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