Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:47:58 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Re: SONY PCG-Z505SX laptop Message-ID: <200105112247.f4BMlwc13637@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 May 2001 15:16:04 PDT." <200105112216.f4BMG4a17452@portnoy.lbl.gov>
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> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 15:16:04 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jin Guojun (DSD staff) <jin@george.lbl.gov> > Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > apm: can't open /dev/apm: Device not configured > > > > The generic kernel has > > > > device apm0 at nexus? disable flags 0x20 > > > > Note "disable". Have you removed that (or enabled it from the > > kernel configuration at boot time)? > > That is. It is confusing part. LINT says: " > ... > # Notes on APM > # The flags takes the following meaning for apm0: > # 0x0020 Statclock is broken. > ... > > So, this makes "disable flags 0x20" like one option -- to disable > the flag 0x20. No. 'disable' means to disable the device, but to build the driver into the kernel so that it can be enabled at boot time without a kernel build. 'flag 0x20' is a separate thing and is in GENERIC as it is more likely to work everywhere. But, on most systems this flag may be removed. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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