From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 5 12:59:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA07757 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:59:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (twinlark.arctic.org [204.62.130.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA07750 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgaudet-list-freebsd-mobile@arctic.org) Received: (qmail 10385 invoked by uid 500); 5 Nov 1997 20:59:09 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:59:08 -0800 (PST) From: Dean Gaudet To: William Robertson cc: Bob Bishop , Brad Karp , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM ThinkPad PS2.EXE API In-Reply-To: <199711051621.IAA10424@wired.com> Message-ID: Organization: Transmeta Corp. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, William Robertson wrote: > the part number is/was #76H7587 for the "IBM Thinkpad 650 Technical > Reference". i got mine a year ago for about 30$US. not worth it. > > it's only half the story. SMAPI allows you to set some basic power type > stuff, and do some monitoring. Such as: Which power mode am/should I > be in? Setting the resume timer. Which display to use. > > Missing are things, like on how to enable and disable on board > devices, changing their interrupts/io portz, how to slow down the cpu > and anything to with what you want, mucking with how hibernation > works. Oh hmm. You're right, I didn't notice how much was missing. It only lets you select between the various power mgmt modes "high", "auto", "manual", doesn't let you define each. Ugh. I wonder if some coercing could get PS2.EXE to run in a DOS box, with the interrupts simulated. Dean