From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 10 9:41:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C57837B401; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:41:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:root@rac3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.143]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA28401; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:40:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac3.wam.umd.edu (IDENT:sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA00399; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:40:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA00394; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:40:55 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac3.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:40:54 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Mitsuru IWASAKI Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, imp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pmtimer In-Reply-To: <20010110233740Z.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yeah, that's what I thought. A while back someone sent me some patches that fix the broken statclock and make it work on laptops, I can't remember his name right now. However those patches are against FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE, and I'm not sure if they'd work for -CURRENT. I suppose I could do without the statclock for now, but it'd be nice to have :-) ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best NT upgrade | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: muythaibxr | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm not sure what pmtimer is supposed to do. Isn't it supposed to give > > support for the broken statclock on laptops? I saw my friend running 4.1 > > with some patches that allowed him to use the statclock (and the rtc > > device showed up in systat -vm 2) On my laptop, pmtimer doesn't appear to > > do anything; and I couldn't find a manpage on it > > Please refer to src/UPDATING for -current. > The new pmtimer device is necessary for laptops. Failure to > include the device will cause suspended laptops losing time > when they resume. > > Currently pmtimer won't solve the broken statclock problem... > The timer related code at suspend/resume time have been moved from APM > to pmtimer so that ACPI (includes new power management system) use > pmtimer at sleep/wakeup time as well. > > Thanks > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message