Date: 20 Jan 2003 14:44:29 -0500 From: Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device.hints and APM/ACPI question Message-ID: <a0r8b7wqqq.fsf@panix3.panix.com> In-Reply-To: <F58v3dreS5daGJGap9o00011bbc@hotmail.com> References: <F58v3dreS5daGJGap9o00011bbc@hotmail.com>
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"How Can ThisBe" <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> writes: > >From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> > <snip> > > > >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 out-of-date (as suggested) and things seem a bit better but still far 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
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