Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:46:01 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Subject: Re: Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT) Message-ID: <20030811214601.426855D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> <20030811143601.I75891@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:36:47 -0700 (PDT) > From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Andy Sparrow wrote: > > > > > > Are you swapping the CDROM and battery while FreeBSD is booted? FreeBSD > > > does not handle this at all and will get really upset if you attempt it. > > > > Really? 4.x with APM handles swapping between a secondary HDD, CD-ROM, > > DVD & DVD/CD-RW in the secondary bay on my Omnibook just fine. > > I'd count you lucky. BTW don't upgrade to 5.X if you want to keep your > sanity -- HP's ACPI code does NOT work. Don't forget that APM is still available and working as an option on 5.X. This is NOT a reason to stay at 4.8, although there are certainly several of those. Count me as a usually happy CURRENT user. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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