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From: engel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Christian Engel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advanced Power Management driver
Date: 29 May 1995 13:42:08 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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: >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?).
Just for interest, the TI-486DX2-50 runs X with the included mouse (trackball).
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