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Date:      20 Jan 2003 14:44:29 -0500
From:      Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: device.hints and APM/ACPI question
Message-ID:  <a0r8b7wqqq.fsf@panix3.panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <F58v3dreS5daGJGap9o00011bbc@hotmail.com>
References:  <F58v3dreS5daGJGap9o00011bbc@hotmail.com>

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"How Can ThisBe" <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> writes:

> >From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
> <snip>
> >
> >ACPI should work fine on an X21. Make sure that you have the latest
> >BIOS.
> >
> >When you say the it did not work, a bit more detail might be helpful.
> >
> 
> Bit of a follow up. I upgraded my x21 BIOS which was a little
> out-of-date (as suggested) and things seem a bit better but still far
> from great. acpiconf seems very inconsistent (hey, its -CURRENT, its
> expected to be).
> 
> Fn+F4 (suspend) seems to work (from within XFree86), the XFree86 window
> 'disappears' and the console is displayed (I'm guessing this is desired
> behaviour). The small 'suspend' LED does not light up (it did in
> 4.7-STABLE). The following two lines are dumped to the console (which
> also appear in the dmesg below) and the console becomes 'half-bright'
> (I would have assumed it switched off):
> 
>     ACPI-0432: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned
> AE_ERROR
>     ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed, AE_ERROR
> 
> Pressing Fn resumes the XFree86 session, sometimes, other times it just
> hangs and requires a battery-out reset.
> 
> The kernel has been compiled without the WITNESS and other debug
> helpers. Tonight I'm going to try a default GENERIC with debug enable.

More or less the same errors on a Thinkpad X20 with CURRENT, which has had
this behavior for at least the last month.

With a battery in the unit, the entire system will crash within an hour of
booting.




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