From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 4:37:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ntua.gr (achilles.noc.ntua.gr [147.102.222.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2618A37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from netmode.ntua.gr (dolly.netmode.ece.ntua.gr [147.102.13.10]) by ntua.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA07759; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:37:27 +0200 (EET) Received: (from past@localhost) by netmode.ntua.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAUCilq05776; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:44:47 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from past) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:44:47 +0200 From: Panagiotis Astithas To: Graham Wheeler Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM support on Compaq Presario 1700 laptop Message-ID: <20001130144447.B3015@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Reply-To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Mail-Followup-To: Panagiotis Astithas , Graham Wheeler , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3A262B43.1DD8AAC9@cequrux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A262B43.1DD8AAC9@cequrux.com>; from gram@cequrux.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:26:11PM +0200 X-Organizational-Unit: Network Management and Optimal Design Laboratory X-Organization: National Technical University of Athens, GREECE X-Work-Phone: +30-1-772-1-450 X-Work-FAX: +30-1-772-1-452 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:26:11PM +0200, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Of greater concern to me is the fact that FreeBSD doesn't seem to > recognise the APM BIOS on this laptop. I have the apm driver configured > into the kernel, and /dev/apm exists, but any attempt to run an APM > related program returns a "/dev/apm: device not configured" error (and > needless to say, commands like "halt -p" don't work). grepping for apm > in the output of dmesg returns nothing. Did you remove the 'disabled' string from the apm line in the kernel config? -past To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message