From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jan 6 6:22: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from kitkat.hotpop.com (kitkat.hotpop.com [204.57.55.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8579D37B404; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 06:21:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from phreaker.net (unknown [204.57.55.31]) by kitkat.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F6E436432; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from randy.ies.net (isdnppp-168.vestfold.net [217.65.226.168]) by zagnut.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2F950013; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 14:21:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200201061407.g06E7Bo01906@mass.dis.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 15:27:37 +0100 (CET) Organization: Private From: webdude@phreaker.net To: Michael Smith Subject: Re: BIOS cross upgrade Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I forgot to mention that the APM BIOS I was talking about is available for the particular model I have. Of course I wouldn't try to use any old APM BIOS for other models. But it still isn't possible ? On 06-Jan-2002 Michael Smith wrote: >> >> This may be a stupid question, but I'll take my chances: >> >> I have a Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT laptop running FreeBSD 4.4 stable >> w/ an 7.60 ACPI BIOS. Can I possibly overwrite this with an >> APM BIOS provided by the manufacturer, to use the APM features of FreeBSD? > > No. -- best regards, Inge Eidsæther Syvertsen webdude@phreaker.net *** If an electronic circuit cannot fail, it will. (Murphys Law) *** (XFMail 1.5.1 on XFree86 4.1.0 running FreeBSD 4.4STABLE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message