Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:48:28 -0500 From: "Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3)" <tbird-contact@cox.net> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Multiple issues (FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE) Message-ID: <4662AA8C.7030108@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0706012339n302654fbh656bfcb63526188b@mail.gmail.com> References: <466009A5.8070808@cox.net> <d7195cff0706012339n302654fbh656bfcb63526188b@mail.gmail.com>
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I will try reflashing the BIOS with the latest ROMpaq. illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 01/06/07, Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) <tbird-contact@cox.net> > wrote: > >> Hardware: Compaq Presario 1200-XL118 >> AMD K6-2 500MHz >> 64MB of RAM >> Trident CyberBlade i7 video with 4MB shared RAM >> 6GB ATA66 HD >> Linksys 10/100 PCCard Ethernet (using ed driver) >> >> OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE using GENERIC kernel >> >> Issues: >> 1) The machine will not turn off when I try to soft-off it (ACPI S5 >> state, shutdown -r or -p). How do I fix this? > > > In my experience most of the stuff built around the > AMD k6 junk (circa 1998) had horrible ACPI support, > nonstandard and incomplete, where possible. I have > a lurking suspicion that they advertised these things > as only working correctly under winders (Optimised > for Windows 98! Now with nearly intel compliant MMX!). > A bios upgrade _might_ solve it. > A lot of those older machines (supposedly) support apm, > so fiddling with apm(8) might give some answers. > You might have to load the module or uncomment the > device apm line and recompile your kernel. >
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