From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jun 23 1:16:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 237C837BC32 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:16:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA54094; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:16:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id CAA95280; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:14:30 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006230814.CAA95280@harmony.village.org> To: Tony Finch Subject: Re: Dell Latitude CPx, pccard, X & apm Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:59:42 GMT." <200006222159.VAA09784@hand.dotat.at> References: <200006222159.VAA09784@hand.dotat.at> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 02:14:30 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200006222159.VAA09784@hand.dotat.at> Tony Finch writes: : (1) the pccard system seems rather inept at allocating interrupts; it : likes to choose irq3 first (which was sio1 until I disabled that : in the BIOS so that I could use my ethernet card) and then it : chooses irq5 which is : pci0: (vendor=0x125d, dev=0x1998) at 8.0 irq 5 : i.e. both these choices lead to IRQ conflicts! The free IRQs are : 8, 13, and 15. Yes. Agreed. : (2) the various bits of BIOS magic (dropping into setup and the APM : functionality) only work in text mode, not in X. The whole machine : seems to lock *hard* when attempting to enter the BIOS from X, to : the extent that I have to unplug the AC power and the batteries in : order to recover control. Yes. You have to have special support in the X server to do this. At least that's my understanding. I could be wrong. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message