From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 30 06:34:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9513B16A4CE for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:34:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gaia.nimnet.asn.au (nimbin.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.45.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7E943D58 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:34:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Received: from localhost (smithi@localhost) by gaia.nimnet.asn.au (8.8.8/8.8.8R1.4) with SMTP id QAA05329; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:33:18 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from smithi@nimnet.asn.au) Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:33:17 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20040830004037.GB83747@thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: FreeBSD Mobile Mailing List Subject: Re: xbatt or other indicators for the Thinkpad 600E? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:34:07 -0000 On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 04:11:55PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: [..] > > Also, is APM being probed at boot time? You should see something like: > > apm0: on motherboard > > apm0: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 > > very early in the boot. I don't build APM into the kernel but add: > > apm_load="YES" > > to /boot/loader.conf, but it should be fine in the kernel. > > The only 'BIOS'-related probe I see involves the PCI->PCI > bridge. When the system boots I get complaints about a > missing /dev/apm; and an expected string about apmd. Just a thought - is APM enabled (or able to be disabled) in the BIOS? > > Make sure that ACPI is disabled and apm enabled in /boot/device.hints. > > hint.apm.0.disabled="0" > > hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" > > hint.apm.0.flags="0x20" > > > > If ACPI starts up, APM won't. These hints entries take care of both > > issues. > > > Ah, the acpi.0.disabled was set to false. This was > probably the culprit. I just set it to "1". Hopefully that will fix it. APM works fine on my Compaq Armada 1500c (on 4.5-R) as long as APCI is switched off in BIOS. As an aside, I tried mailing you off-list about this yesterday, and got: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to ns1.thought.org.: >>> MAIL From: SIZE=1204 <<< 550 5.0.0 ... No SPAM 554 ... Service unavailable .. so I guess your spam filter is maybe targetting .au ? Sorry to mention this on-list, but you probably wouldn't see it otherwise. Cheers, Ian