From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 12:10:15 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F03C716A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:10:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpool.solaris.ru (mpool.solaris.ru [194.85.25.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E59743FE5 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 12:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirill@mpool.solaris.ru) Received: from mpool.solaris.ru (localhost.solaris.ru [127.0.0.1]) by mpool.solaris.ru (8.12.3/8.12.6) with ESMTP id hAKKAAng080203 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:10:10 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from kirill@mpool.solaris.ru) Received: (from kirill@localhost) by mpool.solaris.ru (8.12.3/8.12.6/Submit) id hAKKAAhv080201 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:10:10 +0300 (MSK) Resent-From: kirill@solaris.ru Resent-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:10:10 +0300 Resent-Message-ID: <20031120201010.GA79725@solaris.ru> Resent-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:09:01 +0300 From: Kirill Bezzubets To: Tommy Heaney Message-ID: <20031120200901.GB98313@solaris.ru> References: <20031120194324.AB32E43F85@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031120194324.AB32E43F85@mx1.FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Subject: Re: Dell Latitude C600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:10:16 -0000 On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:43:18PM -0600, Tommy Heaney wrote: > First off, hello everyone, this is my first post to the list. I am > relatively new to *nix, have made a few installations but haven't gotten > much further then the basics. > > My question is concerning a FreeBSD 5.0 RC2 (need to update) installation on > my Dell Latitude C600. I am wondering what kind of configurations I need to > make in order to be able to put the laptop to sleep. Actually, I've never tried it on C600 but on C500 it worked well, the same as for CP/CPi... first of all, download this: http://www.kirill.spb.ru/DSDT.aml If that won't help try to find better DSDT at http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php and put it into /boot, then add following to /boot/loader.conf acpi_dsdt_load="YES" # DSDT Overriding acpi_dsdt_type="acpi_dsdt" # Don't change this acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/DSDT.aml" Of course, you should load "acpi.ko" at startup. > In Windows, I could > press the power button and the machine would sleep. Power button? Not sleep button? > Another problem has > been when I close the display and open it back up, the machine appears to > still be on but the screen never comes back. Try the latest BIOS update available from Dell. It's their bug since they implemented ACPI: BIOS tries to initialise external monitor even there's none of. Try pressing + (CRT/LCD) and everything should be OK. Better way is yet to upgrade your BIOS to latest available. > My next question is, what kind > of power management utilities are available? In console you can use "apm -l" (ACPI provides some backward compatibility with APM) > I use Fluxbox window manager > (and sometimes KDE). I'd like to be able to see how much battery power is > left. Hopefully someone with the same configuration (C600) can give me some > help. > I prefer Enlightenment, so I can't say for sure, but most utilities using APM interface should work. -- BR, Kirill Bezzubets CASE-RIPE CASE-RIPN CTO / Head Of N.O.C. mailto:kirill@solaris.ru Solaris ISP & Telecommunications Co. Ltd http://www.solaris.ru