From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 21 19:19:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03102 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Thu, 21 May 1998 19:19:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles145.castles.com [208.214.165.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA03087 for ; Thu, 21 May 1998 19:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA06086; Thu, 21 May 1998 18:11:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805220111.SAA06086@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Donald Burr cc: FreeBSD Mobile Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD on Toshiba Satellite 105CS In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 May 1998 17:30:42 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 18:11:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > I'd like to be able to use FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my Toshiba Satellite 105CS > computer. I tried 2.2.5, but unfortunately several things did not work on > it, so I have had to switch to Linux (which DOES work fine). Maybe 2.2.6 > can solve these problems? 2.2.5 might do it, actually. > (1) I would like to be able to use the Fn-keys combinations to change > things. (for example, Fn-F2 to cycle through my varous power-saving > modes, or Fn-F4 to change my sound volume.) Under 2.2.5, the Fn-keys > would work *ONCE* per reboot, and then would not work any more. (A reboot > was required.) Under Linux, the Fn-key sequences work properly all the > time. This is odd; they work fine on most systems even without APM support enabled. It's possible that there's something undesirable happening, but I'm at somewhat of a loss as to what it might be - those keyboard hotkeys are handled at a very low level, where nothing should be able to stop them. > (2) I have my BIOS set to automatically power down the LCD screen after 1 > minute of inactivity. This has saved me a LOT of battery life. NOrmally ... > (3) When I typed "halt" or "shutdown -h" in Linux, it automatically turned > my laptop's power OFF after it did its shutdown thing. Is there any way > to get FreeBSD to do this? Try 'apmconf -e' first. You can enable this by default in /etc/rc.conf. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message