From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Mar 11 11:54:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0941337B400 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12251; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:54:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2BJsa553692; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:54:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15501.2939.827443.269853@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:54:35 -0700 To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), Torfinn Ingolfsen , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop goes to standby when the lid is closed In-Reply-To: <20020311195232.C47105D0B@ptavv.es.net> References: <15501.2573.37137.498448@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020311195232.C47105D0B@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) 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 >>> I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad 380ED) that goes to standby when the >>> lid is closed. >> >> This is a BIOS setting, and is normally controlled by the ThinkPad >> windows software. > > On most ThinkPads, it is best to use ps2 (DOS program) to configure > BIOS. The Windows tool puts the changes in the Windows registry, but > does not actually update CMOS memory for may items and the registry is > of no use when booting FreeBSD. Good advice! Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message