From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 20 07:56:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA13456 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:56:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA13451 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 07:56:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA18854; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:56:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA09995; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:56:39 -0700 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 08:56:39 -0700 Message-Id: <199711201556.IAA09995@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ari Suutari Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: APM and Compaq Contura 400CX In-Reply-To: References: <199711192048.NAA06345@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > See previous email on this subject. FreeBSD doesn't (yet) support > > 'standby' mode, so we assume all modes are suspend modes. This is not > > good, so for now I think your timeout is probably adequate until standby > > mode is implemented. ;( > > > > Hmm. My request was *suspend* - maybe there is something > that I didn't understand ? Yes, the Compaq's APM BIOS responds with a 'suspend' request with a 'standby' request. Apparently it wants to go into standby mode before it does a full suspend or something. > Anyway - I can live with my current kludge since it > seems to make things work in this case. Great, hopefully someone will come up with the trivial code to implement standby mode. Nate