From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 17:46:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAE216A4B3 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:46:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu (GS166.SP.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.205.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E26AA43FCB for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2003 17:46:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu) Sender: dpelleg@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu To: Mike Woods References: <20031005125344.419d012f.Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> From: Dan Pelleg Date: 05 Oct 2003 20:45:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20031005125344.419d012f.Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-mobile Subject: Re: Thinkpad R31 Stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 00:46:12 -0000 Mike Woods writes: > Bit of a vauge subject but then this is a bit of a vauge email :D > > Ok, ive got me here a nice new Thinkpad R31, it works fine aside from a few quirks, nothing major but enough to warrant a post :) > > ACPI > ---- > > Acpi on the R31 has some issues, it's fine for most operations but apm options cause a real problem, if i close the lid without disabling acpi apm i can kiss FreeBSD good bye because it wont be comming back without a reboot :( > >From what i've been reading this seems to be down to badly written acpi code and i beleive it's possible to *replace* this code but since i know basicly nothing but acpi programming (and the docs are frankly not helpfull) im wondering if anyone else has had this problem and found a solution (or am i just fubar'ed on this one). > > Thanks in advacne for any help you can provide! (hell thanks for taking the time to read this :) ) > Here is a report of this mostly working (on 5.1 at least): http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=185 -- Dan Pelleg