From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 4 14:34:26 2001 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 14:34:25 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (unknown [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B53237B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f04MYMl08971; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:34:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id f04MYM147333; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:34:22 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200101042234.f04MYM147333@harmony.village.org> To: Graham Wheeler Subject: Re: Just how standard is APM? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:53:09 +0200." <3A545615.3597BCF3@cequrux.com> References: <3A545615.3597BCF3@cequrux.com> Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 15:34:22 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: imp@harmony.village.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3A545615.3597BCF3@cequrux.com> Graham Wheeler writes: : Hi all : : I'm running FreeBSD 4.2-S on a Compaq Presario laptop. This laptop seems : to have APM support (at least it does under MS-Windows), but FreeBSD : doesn't recognise it as such. I've gone so far as to add additional log : messages in the kernel probes for the APM BIOS, and these log that the : initial vm86 BIOS call to get the APM BIOS version fail. : : Is this really exceptional, or are there lots of unsupported APM BIOSes? : I believe that APM is a WinTel `standard'; just how standard is it : really? APM is standard. Except when it is broken in some brain damaged ways. However, you likely have your apm device disabled in your kernel and all you need to do is enable it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message