From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jan 6 8: 8:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from kitkat.hotpop.com (kitkat.hotpop.com [204.57.55.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA2437B402; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 08:08:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from phreaker.net (unknown [204.57.55.31]) by kitkat.hotpop.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FC6C362E9; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:07:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from randy.ies.net (isdnppp-10.vestfold.net [217.65.226.10]) by zagnut.hotpop.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E9750022; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.1 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200201061426.g06EQOo02058@mass.dis.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 17:13:26 +0100 (CET) Organization: Private From: webdude@phreaker.net To: Michael Smith Subject: Re: BIOS cross upgrade Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-HotPOP: ----------------------------------------------- Sent By HotPOP.com FREE Email Get your FREE POP email at www.HotPOP.com ----------------------------------------------- Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sure I can download and try to upgrade, but I decided to ask this question on freebsd-mobile first, so that people with more experience than myself could possibly warn me of problems arising out of such a procedure. I really would hate to turn my laptop useless and in afterwards nag myself for not asking for advice first. That being said, if the upgrade program allows saving of the old BIOS content, I rest a little easier. And of course I'll let you know... On 06-Jan-2002 Michael Smith wrote: > > Well, if the upgrade is available, why don't you try it and tell us > whether it works? > >> I forgot to mention that the APM BIOS I was talking about >> is available for the particular model I have. Of course I >> wouldn't try to use any old APM BIOS for other models. >> But it still isn't possible ? >> >> >> On 06-Jan-2002 Michael Smith wrote: >> >> >> >> This may be a stupid question, but I'll take my chances: >> >> >> >> I have a Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT laptop running FreeBSD 4.4 stable >> >> w/ an 7.60 ACPI BIOS. Can I possibly overwrite this with an >> >> APM BIOS provided by the manufacturer, to use the APM features of >> >> FreeBSD? >> > >> > No. best regards, Inge Eidsæther Syvertsen webdude@phreaker.net *** If an electronic circuit cannot fail, it will. (Murphys Law) *** (XFMail 1.5.1 on XFree86 4.1.0 running FreeBSD 4.4STABLE) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message