From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 13 11:04:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA01928 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:04:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.93.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA01877 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:04:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA28403 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:32:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:32:59 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM thinkpad 560E, after BIOS upgrade In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After sending that off, I realized I had missed some pertinent information: I am running FreeBSD-CURRENT: uname -a FreeBSD sleipnir.watson.org 3.0-19981123-SNAP FreeBSD 3.0-19981123-SNAP #4: Thu Dec 24 21:00:12 EST 1998 root@sleipnir.watson.org:/usr/tmp/execmon/sys/compile/TROJANHORSE i386 with: device apm0 at isa? flags 0x31 # Advanced Power Management # PCCARD (PCMCIA) support controller card0 device pcic0 at card? device pcic1 at card? ... device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmin tr options PSM_HOOKAPM #hook the APM resume event options PSM_RESETAFTERSUSPEND #reset the device at the resume event And the standard sc0 prior to the recent innovations in console drivers. On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Robert Watson wrote: > A little while ago, a friend of mine dropped my 560E notebook, so we > returned it to IBM for repairs, which were thankfully under warranty > (estimated repair cost: several hundred dollars :). However, when they > repaired it, they performed a BIOS upgrade on it. Ever since then, APM > has been acting up. The specific behavior I observe is that everything > goes fine unless the screen is powered down for some reason. For example, > during suspension or after a period of inactivity. It used to be that the > screen would power back up again, either from console or X windows, in the > event that the notebook was woken up, or a mouse click occurred, etc. Now > the screen never powers back up. While I use AccelX, I also observe the > problem when not in X Windows, and disabling support for power management > in XiG appears not to help. I have not tried disabling apm support in the > OS--given that it used to work, it would be great if it still did (I also > like suspending my notebook :). Does anyone have any pointers as to > things I could try, or should I be contacting IBM and pleaing for a BIOS > un-upgrade? > > Thanks in advance, > > > Robert N Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C > > Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ > SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ > > Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message