Re: TP600 & APM problem in X

"Greg Smith" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andrew,

Is this what you are looking for?

http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psg1MIGR-4ZFPEG

It took, conservatively, 30 seconds to locate.  I find it very easy to
find things on IBM's support pages.  You can get one page which has all
downloads for your ThinkPad model.

Greg

-----Original Message-----

>I've got an A21e and I'm having a heck of a time with ACPI. Is it just

>ACPI that's broken or my laptop? I'd posted the dmesg dump to a
similar 
>problem report (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/46553)

>but hadn't seen much else on it.
>
>Is the 'ps2.exe' util up on IBM's web site? (I ask because finding 
>drivers on their site is often like searching for the metaphorical 
>needle). Should I give it a whirl or is my best bet just disabling
ACPI 
>and going with APM (which worked reasonably well under 4.5)?
>
>andrew
>
>On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:27:04PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Vaclav Kares wrote:
>> > Thank you for summary. I also try to install old X 4.0 in 5.0 but
this
>> > don't help too. It seems that this is a deeper problem...
>> 
>> Anyone having problems with their Thinkpad would be advised to get
into
>> the BIOS and find the 'Initialize' option and then boot to DOS and
run
>the
>> 'ps2.exe' utility with the 'default' argument to reset various power
>> management timers.
>> 
>> Oh, and I'm assuming that the people with 600 series systems aren't
>> foolishly trying to use ACPI.  :)
>> 
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