Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:53:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM86 and APM Message-ID: <199810010153.SAA04986@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:18:04 %2B0900." <199809280818.RAA03188@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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> > I printed the error code (ax register) from the APM BIOS call via VM86 > during apm_probe(), I got: > > apm: BIOS probe failed: error 0x1 carry 1 ax 0x8600 bx 0x0 > apm0 not found > > 0x86 means "No APM BIOS", right? Yes. It may mean that it's disabled in the BIOS setup, or that the APM BIOS doesn't support being connected to from VM86 mode. I haven't heard any confirmation that this might be common. > Then I loaded a kernel without VM86 and it said: > > apm0 not found > > Oh, I thought it worked before! It must have been my dream that the > apm driver had worked on this MB... That would explain a lot. 8) > The motherboard has the Award BIOS, which does have power management > setup items, such as "Power Management" and "PM Control by APM" (I > natually have them both enabled). > > May be the APM BIOS is deficient? Possibly, but you wouldn't expect so. Try booting the non-VM86 kernel from a cold power-on, and see if the probe still fails. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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