From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 8 15:48: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C7137B718; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:47:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f28Nllr23411; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:47:47 -0800 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:47:47 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Andrew Hesford Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" , Andrew Hesford , FreeBSD-stable , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: APM Message-ID: <20010308154747.A21127@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010308164413.A497@cec.wustl.edu> <20010308165523.A6615@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20010308165523.A6615@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@cec.wustl.edu on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:55:24PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:55:24PM -0600, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Believe me, I'd love to do that. Unfortunately, the > processor/motherboard in the T450 use the SECC packaging for the PIII, > wher=E6s the L733r uses the PIII Coppermine with FC-PGA packaging. >=20 > Maybe, just maybe, if I hack up my old PIII-450, I can jam the new > Coppermine into the old package. :) >=20 > One more thing... The L733r doesn't technically have an APM BIOS. There > are no APM settings in the BIOS setup. Instead, it supports ACPI, which > I expect to work with the FreeBSD APM device driver for two reasons: >=20 > 1) Linux APM used to work with this PC > 2) I thought ACPI mobos were backwards-compatible with APM. I can't comment on the Linux thing, but I've seen comments to the effect that ACPI-only systems are beginning to appear. You may be SOL until 5.0 if that's the case. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6qBoiXY6L6fI4GtQRAlHGAKCd94LF+ogKw8dRr6ttbeq3erwNxACdGd7V CSEBvWQk/ZoN0sScFvqqgmI= =t5w2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message