Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 20:11:34 -0400 (EDT) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas <ipthomas_77@yahoo.com> To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tweaking a laptop installation Message-ID: <200105030011.UAA00544@scarlet.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <m1pudrfmgg.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk> from Wayne Pascoe at "May 2, 2001 10:52:15 pm"
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Operating System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am running a 3.2 RELEASE box with apm. After adding the line in the kernel I did a apmconf -e to enable the apm. Now shutdown -p works. Also there may be something in your BIOS about apm. I'm not sure of it's exact name but the default usaually specifies the OS as one that takes advantage of some apm spec. that Windows uses. You may also have to disable this. Ian As told by, Wayne Pascoe > Hi all, > > My Sony Vaio Z600-HEK has arrived. Windows 2000 that was installed > seemed to be faulty. A quick shake, and it fell right off :) > > Anyways, FreeBSD installed quite smoothly, and I have the box at the > point where I can do work with it. I now want to tweak it so that I > can have fun with it. To this end, I need to ask a couple of > questions (in no particular order of importance :)) > > 1. The card installed according to Windows was an ATI rage > mobility. I chose the ATI Mach 3D RAGE II in xf86cfg because that was > the closest thing that I could find. XFree86 4.0.3 works but I was > wondering if there was a better choice ? > > 2. The touchpad seems sluggish. Is there any way to speed this up ? > > 3. Sound. The bane of my life on Laptops. I never did get the sound on > my pcg505 working under Linux or FreeBSD. Does anyone know if the > sound card in the Z600-HEK works under FreeBSD? It is a Yamaha of some > sort. If so, what should I include in my kernel to activate it ? > > 4. Shutting down and powering off... What do I have to do to make > shutdown -p turn off the power? I've included the apm line that was in > GENERIC in my own kernel, but it doesn't work. When I shut down I get > the message saying that the system has been shut down. Hit any key to > reboot. > > 5. Suspend to disk - There was no partition on the machine for this > before I whacked Windows. Is there any way to do this on this machine? > > 6. Memory stick slot - can this be made to work? Please say yes :) > This would make my life soooo much more convinient. > > 7. Jog dial - This is a looooong shot, but can this be configured to > act as a mouse wheel or is it just a plastic widget on the side of my > machine that will never be used :) > > Thanks in advance for any tips / solutions to any of this :) > > -- > - Wayne Pascoe > E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk > Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 > Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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