Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 08:04:49 -0800 From: Eric =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hedstr=F6m?= <erich@ucsd.edu> To: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> Cc: Kenan <info@djkenan.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thinkpad 600 Power Management Issues (HD turned on and off) Message-ID: <3CAC79A1.4010801@ucsd.edu> References: <000201c1dba3$ee8b18d0$0a9610ac@ericestes.com> <87vgb7pkxb.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org>
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Do you all have apm enabled in your kernels and rc.conf files? My 560X does not do this, running 4.5-release or -stable from last weekend. I have apm enabled in the kernel (removed the word "disable"): device apm0 at nexus? flags 0x20 in dmesg it shows up thus: apm0: <APM BIOS> on motherboard apm: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 and in rc.conf: apm_enable="YES" apmd_enable="YES" The reason I ask is that in my old Thinkpad, a 701C, the hard drive would just shut down when I closed the lid (making the system quite unhappy, getting the filesystem yanked out from under it), until I enabled apm. It's running 4.5-release. The 701C reports its apm as v1.1. hope this helps, Eric Chris Shenton wrote: > "Kenan" <info@djkenan.com> writes: > > >>I have recently installed 4.5-stable on a Thinkpad 600X (BIOS version >>ITET53WW), and the hard drive sounds like it is being turned on and off >>every few seconds. This was happening after the default install, and it >>is still happening after the custom kernel build. (I haven't done >>anything specific for power management in the custom kernel other than >>leaving the "device apm0 at nexus?" option, which was there in the >>GENERIC anyway.) >> > > Have you run any other version of FreeBSD without this problem? > > I have had the same problem with my Thinkpad 560X ever since > installing 4.1; 3.x did not do this, nor does NT (which I only boot > for TurboTax, honest :-) See the bug report from 2000-12-14: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/23548 > > I've now got 4.4 or 4.5 on it and it's still sounding like it's > spinning up, then spinning down the disk, with a click as if it's > parking the heads. Makes it *very* slow for disk intensive work like > building a kernel. When installing the OS, I notice this first when > it says "Making devices...". > > I did install the latest BIOS from IBM (then) but it was no help. > > Perhaps there's something malconfigured in my BIOS, but I've tried > poking at various settings to no avail. I haven't heard a lot of > other people complaining so I'd love to hear what other 560X and 600 > users have configured such that they're not affected. > > Clues welcome. I'd really prefer to run FreeBSD than any other OS. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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