Re: Thinkpad R31 Stuff

Dan Pelleg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mike Woods <[email protected]> writes:

> Bit of a vauge subject but then this is a bit of a vauge email :D
> 
> Ok, ive got me here a nice new Thinkpad R31, it works fine aside from a few quirks, nothing major but enough to warrant a post :)
> 
> ACPI
> ----
> 
> Acpi on the R31 has some issues, it's fine for most operations but apm options cause a real problem, if i close the lid without disabling acpi apm i can kiss FreeBSD good bye because it wont be comming back without a reboot :(
> >From what i've been reading this seems to be down to badly written acpi code and i beleive it's possible to *replace* this code but since i know basicly nothing but acpi programming (and the docs are frankly not helpfull) im wondering if anyone else has had this problem and found a solution (or am i just fubar'ed on this one).
> 
> Thanks in advacne for any help you can provide! (hell thanks for taking the time to read this :) )
> 

Here is a report of this mostly working (on 5.1 at least):

http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=185

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  Dan Pelleg
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