From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Jan 20 11:44:38 2003 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 6C79637B401 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:44:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.panix.com (mail3.panix.com [166.84.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACEB943E4A for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evenson@panix.com) Received: from panix3.panix.com (panix3.panix.com [166.84.1.3]) by mail3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D209698B43 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:44:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (from evenson@localhost) by panix3.panix.com (8.11.6/8.8.8/PanixN1.0) id h0KJiTl28402; Mon, 20 Jan 2003 14:44:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device.hints and APM/ACPI question References: From: Mark Evenson Date: 20 Jan 2003 14:44:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 41 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "How Can ThisBe" writes: > >From: "Kevin Oberman" > > > > >ACPI should work fine on an X21. Make sure that you have the latest > >BIOS. > > > >When you say the it did not work, a bit more detail might be helpful. > > > > Bit of a follow up. I upgraded my x21 BIOS which was a little > out-of-date (as suggested) and things seem a bit better but still far > from great. acpiconf seems very inconsistent (hey, its -CURRENT, its > expected to be). > > Fn+F4 (suspend) seems to work (from within XFree86), the XFree86 window > 'disappears' and the console is displayed (I'm guessing this is desired > behaviour). The small 'suspend' LED does not light up (it did in > 4.7-STABLE). The following two lines are dumped to the console (which > also appear in the dmesg below) and the console becomes 'half-bright' > (I would have assumed it switched off): > > ACPI-0432: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned > AE_ERROR > ACPI-1287: *** Error: Method execution failed, AE_ERROR > > Pressing Fn resumes the XFree86 session, sometimes, other times it just > hangs and requires a battery-out reset. > > The kernel has been compiled without the WITNESS and other debug > helpers. Tonight I'm going to try a default GENERIC with debug enable. More or less the same errors on a Thinkpad X20 with CURRENT, which has had this behavior for at least the last month. With a battery in the unit, the entire system will crash within an hour of booting. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message