From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 3 11:47:51 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51E116A400 for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tbird-contact@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao101.cox.net (eastrmmtao101.cox.net [68.230.240.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5552613C44C for ; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tbird-contact@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao101.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.05.02.00 201-2174-114-20060621) with ESMTP id <20070603114750.SZIF4413.eastrmmtao101.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net>; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 07:47:50 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.2] ([72.198.194.118]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id 6znq1X0022ZkRdC0000000; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 07:47:50 -0400 Message-ID: <4662AA8C.7030108@cox.net> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 06:48:28 -0500 From: "Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3)" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "illoai@gmail.com" References: <466009A5.8070808@cox.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Multiple issues (FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:47:51 -0000 I will try reflashing the BIOS with the latest ROMpaq. illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 01/06/07, Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) > wrote: > >> Hardware: Compaq Presario 1200-XL118 >> AMD K6-2 500MHz >> 64MB of RAM >> Trident CyberBlade i7 video with 4MB shared RAM >> 6GB ATA66 HD >> Linksys 10/100 PCCard Ethernet (using ed driver) >> >> OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE using GENERIC kernel >> >> Issues: >> 1) The machine will not turn off when I try to soft-off it (ACPI S5 >> state, shutdown -r or -p). How do I fix this? > > > In my experience most of the stuff built around the > AMD k6 junk (circa 1998) had horrible ACPI support, > nonstandard and incomplete, where possible. I have > a lurking suspicion that they advertised these things > as only working correctly under winders (Optimised > for Windows 98! Now with nearly intel compliant MMX!). > A bios upgrade _might_ solve it. > A lot of those older machines (supposedly) support apm, > so fiddling with apm(8) might give some answers. > You might have to load the module or uncomment the > device apm line and recompile your kernel. >