Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 11:58:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrew Maltsev <am@amsoft.ru> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), hosokawa@ntc.keio.ac.jp, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, walter@fortean.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM power off (patch) Message-ID: <199803101958.LAA19859@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 18:11:34 %2B0300." <199803101511.SAA03142@amsoft.ru>
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> > > >> > May I bring your attention to the PAO package: > > > >> > http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/PAO/ > > > >> > which also implements power off via APM. > > > >> > > > >> APM poweroff on ATX boards is different to APM poweroff on laptops. > > > >> FreeBSD has been able to use APM to shut laptops down for a long time > > > >> now, but it hasn't worked on ATX boards. > > > > > > Hmm? I read roughly the patch mentioned in the first mail of this > > > thread, and I can't find any essential difference between it and > > > -current, and I have heard and tested that PAO shutdown power-off code > > > works under ATX machines. > > > > Odd; I had expected that it *would*, but when I tried it on my brand > > new ASUS board it didn't, nor on the Tyan box next to me. > > Have you APM enabled in BIOS? Yes; as I said, suspending works. > It works fine on my Intel AL440LX APM 1.2 compatible board. And I see no > difference between laptops and ATX boards from APM point of view. Ok. Sounds like circumstantial problems. I'll try again. > ...btw I see no code in 2.2-stable branch to power down > laptop. RB_POWEROFF is not analized anywhere in kernel. No, it's only in -current. > I do not pretend my patch to be hard done job or very urgent - it's very > simple and obvious - but it adds functionality to 2.2 branch. And to me > it's better than nothing. That's all. It'd be better to merge the code from -current, just for consistency's sake. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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