Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:14:55 +1100 From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Compaq Armada 1500c APM weirdness Message-ID: <3E8288CF.E9845F38@nimnet.asn.au>
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I've scoured the -mobile archives, finding no mention of this machine at all. If this is (an old) FAQ please point me in the right direction. Sorry if it's a bit long .. I've had this beastie for about 4 months; Celeron 300, 4Gb HD, currently 64Mb. The first week I shrunk its installed Win95b partition and installed 4.5-RELEASE and KDE 2.2 in 2.5Gb as a testbed to see if it was worthwhile fitting a 20Gb drive and 160Mb. I then installed Win98se plus all of Compaq's additional 1500c bits, upgraded setup/diagnostics and flashed the latest BIOS. All without incident, or any ill effect on how well FreeBSD ran. After nearly a month's uptime after building a kernel that got sound working, during which time I'd been carting it around, using it lots on battery with short APM timings for screen / HD / suspend BIOS settings of 1/2/3 minutes, working just fine in or out of X, I had to shut it down and boot Win98 for a brief job unloading a Kodak DC3200 camera (serial). Ever since then, APM auto-suspend has refused to work in FreeBSD. Screen and HD timeouts still work, suspend button and zzz work, battery low suspend works, everything is peachy except auto-suspend, which won't work with or without X running. I should mention that I always had to go via setup after running Win98 before rebooting FreeBSD, as Win98 zeros these timeouts for its own use, but resetting desired timeouts had always worked before. ACPI is now set off, but made no difference before when it was on those first three months, presumably ignored. My gut feeling is that Win98, apart from clearing these timeouts as mentioned, may have toggled something else affecting APM, but nothing that shows in the BIOS settings? I've tried all manner of fiddling with the Win98 APM settings too; no difference. Does this ring any bells for anyone? Cheers, Ian
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