Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 15:47:47 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@cec.wustl.edu> Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@datasyrge.net>, Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>, FreeBSD-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: APM Message-ID: <20010308154747.A21127@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010308165523.A6615@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@cec.wustl.edu on Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:55:24PM -0600 References: <20010308164413.A497@cec.wustl.edu> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103081752080.12493-100000@equinox.datasyrge.net> <20010308165523.A6615@cec.wustl.edu>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:55:24PM -0600, Andrew Hesford wrote: > Believe me, I'd love to do that. Unfortunately, the > processor/motherboard in the T450 use the SECC packaging for the PIII, > wheræs the L733r uses the PIII Coppermine with FC-PGA packaging. > > Maybe, just maybe, if I hack up my old PIII-450, I can jam the new > Coppermine into the old package. :) > > One more thing... The L733r doesn't technically have an APM BIOS. There > are no APM settings in the BIOS setup. Instead, it supports ACPI, which > I expect to work with the FreeBSD APM device driver for two reasons: > > 1) Linux APM used to work with this PC > 2) I thought ACPI mobos were backwards-compatible with APM. I can't comment on the Linux thing, but I've seen comments to the effect that ACPI-only systems are beginning to appear. You may be SOL until 5.0 if that's the case. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6qBoiXY6L6fI4GtQRAlHGAKCd94LF+ogKw8dRr6ttbeq3erwNxACdGd7V CSEBvWQk/ZoN0sScFvqqgmI= =t5w2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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