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From: chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advanced Power Management driver
Date: 21 May 1995 12:25:24 -0500
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
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Message-ID: <3pnt24$svr@Mars.mcs.com>
References: <3ph9i6$f9u@Mars.mcs.com> <D8unDA.5G1@tfs.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mars.mcs.com
In article <D8unDA.5G1@tfs.com>,
Julian Elischer <julian@mailhub.tfs.com> wrote:
>In article <3ph9i6$f9u@Mars.mcs.com>,
>Christopher Hilton <chilton@MCS.COM> wrote:
>>I compiled a kernel with the apm0 device driver on my TI 4000 laptop
>>this evening and on bootup the kernel complaines apm0 not found. I'm
>>told that my laptop has Intel/Microsloth APM but I don't know which
>>version it is. (I think 1.0 but I'll know tommorow when I convert the
>>APM spec from MicroSloth Word format...) In any case, the kernel that
>>I compiled didn't work but the driver is marked "experimental" Is this
>>driver working and is my laptop non-conformant or is this driver in
>>need of some tweaking?
>
>I got the same result with my 4000 DX-2/50
>possibly it's an early version....
>
After I got the APM spec printed and went in with DOS debug to figure
out if APM was on my machine I got my answer. APM is not in the BIOS
on these machines. TI may have a driver that they load out of
config.sys to do this but FreeBSD will obviously never find that. I'm
faced with the choice of giving up on APM for this machine or taking
apart the driver to figure out how it works...
>have you got the trackball working?
>
Nope, I assumed that it would work with the PS/2 busmouse driver. My
laptop is small (120MB) so I don't run X... The nice thing about it si
that all the new drives ar larger and use less power than the one that
I have so I'll just get a new drive and install X and use the busmouse
driver (I hope?).
C.
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Christopher Sean Hilton E-mail: chilton@mcs.com
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