From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 1 1:50:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F1C014D06 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 01:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from suzy (modem11.masternet.it [194.184.65.21]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA60664; Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:50:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991101103807.00bce8a0@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 10:39:44 +0100 To: Warner Losh From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: laptop problems Cc: mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199911010636.XAA05245@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 31/10/99, you wrote: >My sony VAIO went dark tonight. About 10 minutes before it went dark, >the battery light started blinking (which was odd, since I wasn't >recharging as the machine had been plugged in for days) and then I got >a low battery warning and a forced suspend. Then, it came on breifly >once more and died completely after that. I can't even get the thing >to turn on with or without the battery. The voltage from the PS is >good, so I'm at a loss to explain it. > >This may impact the pccard/cardbus work I've been doing. I'll advise >as soon as I know more... > >The bummer is that it has a few additional changes on it that I've not >committed. Can't even get it up enough to do a backup :-(. Argh, what about to get the HD from there and try to use it from a normal box ? My .2 advice ... Ciaoooooooo Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message