From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 14 9:55:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.yumyumyum.org (dsl092-171-091.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.171.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60B4037B417 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:55:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8561 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Jan 2002 17:55:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jan 2002 17:55:50 -0000 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:55:50 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: bts@babbleon.org, Subject: Re: ACPI In-Reply-To: <20020114.104211.26545398.imp@village.org> Message-ID: <20020114125404.P8519-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 > : I'd think it's "less interesting" because APM can report battery state and > : suspend and all that basic stuff. Or is the concern here about about > : machines with broken APM? > > Lots of new laptops just flat won't work with APM. I have one that > just kicks up its heels and refuses to do a thing with APM. Of course > this is the same laptop that assigns IRQs to the cardbus bridge that > aren't wired to the cardbus bridge, but I suppose I can't exect things > like that to work right, can I? > My laptop actually specifically says it won't work right with ACPI. (battery/power features at least). And it's right, on FreeBSD-CURRENT, I can't see the battery state or anything no matter what I do with ACPI enabled. Of course with ACPI enabled, the broken statclock problem goes away, so I'm not sure what I like better, having a working statclock, or having working battery info. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message