Re: FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba Tecra A4

On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 00:50 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
> 
>  > On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 21:58 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > > On Sun, 21 May 2006, Yousef Raffah wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >  > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 01:53 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
>  > >  > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:45:49 +0300
>  > >  > > Yousef Raffah <[email protected]> wrote:
>  > >  > > 
>  > >  > > > ACPI not working (working on Linux)
>  > >  > > 
>  > >  > > doesn't work on my A2 either (does work, but the HD doens't realise it has gone
>  > >  > > to sleep and resumed and panic ensues on resume). disable acpi and use apm,
>  > >  > > works fine.
> 
> [..]
> 
>  > > On 5.x at least, /boot/device.hints contains
>  > > 
>  > >  hint.apm.0.disabled="1"
>  > >  hint.apm.0.flags="0x20"
> 
> Is that still the case for your 6 system?
> 
Well, if I understood you correctly, these two lines where exactly the
same in my /boot/device.hints

>  > > So you'll likely need to add to /boot/loader.conf:
>  > > 
>  > >  hint.apm.0.disabled="0"
>  > >  hint.apm.0.flags="0"     # assuming a non-broken statclock
> 
> Maybe try with the default .flags?  I may assume too much ..
> 
will try that and see

>  > > Then early in your dmesg.boot you should see such as
>  > > 
>  > >  apm0: <APM BIOS> on motherboard
>  > >  apm0: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2
>  > > 
>  > > and both /dev/apm and /dev/apmctl should appear.
> 
>  > Thanks for your reply Ian, but unfortunately, neither /dev/apm
>  > nor /dev/apmctl appeared after adding the two lines:
>  > hint.apm.0.disabled="0"
>  > hint.apm.0.flags="0"
>  > 
>  > in /boot/loader.conf
>  > It never appeared in dmesg as well :(.
> 
> Ok, just to check that your kernel thinks it has apm support, what
> does 'kldstat -v' say about apm?
> 
> paqi# kldstat -v | grep apm | grep -v via
>                 184 legacy/apm
>  4    1 0xc11a1000 2000     apm_saver.ko
>                 225 apm_saver
> 
>    (apm_saver irrelevant, though it does work well in vtys here)
> 
It only shows 175 legacy/apm

> and in the same vein (though also after successful APM loading):
> 
> paqi# sysctl -a | grep apm
> debug.apm_debug: 0
> machdep.apm_suspend_delay: 1
> machdep.apm_standby_delay: 1
> machdep.apm_swab_batt_minutes: 0
> dev.apm.0.%desc: APM BIOS
> dev.apm.0.%driver: apm
> dev.apm.0.%parent: legacy0
> 
>  > I even added the following
>  > > In rc.conf:
>  > > 
>  > >  apm_enable="YES"
>  > >  apmd_enable="YES"
>  > >  apmd_flags="-v"
>  > > 
>  > But no help :( Thanks for trying anyhow...
> 
> Well the rc.conf options won't help until booting detects APM BIOS.
> 
> Oh yes, can you / have you switched ACPI off &/or APM on in its BIOS? 
> 
not so far, will try it and report back.

> otherwise out of ideas, Ian
> 
Thanks...

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Sincerely,
Yousef Raffah
Senior Systems Administrator
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