Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:38:48 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Benjamin Close <cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au>, shadows <shadows@cyberspace7.legions.org> Cc: "Ron 'The InSaNe OnE' Rosson" <insane@oneinsane.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Util for dell i8k's Message-ID: <20020328013848.48EC5BB4C@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <3CA24AC8.30205@cs.unisa.edu.au> References: <Pine.BSO.4.21.0203271120440.17964-100000@cyberspace7.legions.org> <3CA24AC8.30205@cs.unisa.edu.au>
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On Wednesday 27 March 2002 05:42 pm, Benjamin Close wrote:
| shadows wrote:
| >That would be just excellent.
| >
| >Would anyone be able to help me get the APM working on my Dell Lattitude
| >CPxJ650GT. I do apm -b and it says device not configured. How would I
| >configure this device?
|
| Hmm, I started porting the linux i8k kernel module to bsd but shelved it
| when I went to -current as the ACPI support could do this sort of thing.
| Now I'm back in -stable land I'll see if I can put the hooks in for folks.
|
| In regards to apm, you must make sure it's in the kernel and also
| enabled. By default it is disabled. You can either remove the 'disabled'
| bit from the GENERIC kernel config or add:
|
| en apm0
| fl apm0 0x0
|
| to /boot/kernel.conf
|
| (which may not exist yet)
Hmm . . . I have an i8k, and apm works fine, and I didn't do either of those
things.
What *did* do was to add
device apm
to the kernel config. Do *NOT* use the apm0 with all those goofy flags you
might find in some older versions of LINT.
And I also added this:
apm_enable="YES"
to /etc/rc.conf.
|
| Cheers,
| Benjamin
|
|
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