From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 30 4:50:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cequrux.com (citadel.cequrux.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358EA37B400 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:50:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cequrux.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) id OAA21466; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:50:04 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel.cequrux.com via recvmail id 21332; Thu Nov 30 14:49:08 2000 Message-ID: <3A263459.99FCA160@cequrux.com> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 13:04:57 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM support on Compaq Presario 1700 laptop References: <3A262B43.1DD8AAC9@cequrux.com> <20001130144447.B3015@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > > 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? Yes; this is the same kernel config file as I used previously with the 1600 laptop - and the APM stuff worked fine on that. -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Director, Research and Development WWW: http://www.cequrux.com CEQURUX Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065 Firewalls/VPN Specialists Fax: +27(21)424-3656 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message