Extra battery causes hangs (T40p, FreeBSD 5.1/CURRENT)

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Doug White <dwhite at gumbysoft.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Andy Sparrow wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Are you swapping the CDROM and battery while FreeBSD is booted? FreeBSD
> > > does not handle this at all and will get really upset if you attempt it.
> >
> > Really? 4.x with APM handles swapping between a secondary HDD, CD-ROM,
> > DVD & DVD/CD-RW in the secondary bay on my Omnibook just fine.
> 
> I'd count you lucky.  BTW don't upgrade to 5.X if you want to keep your
> sanity -- HP's ACPI code does NOT work.

Don't forget that APM is still available and working as an option on
5.X. This is NOT a reason to stay at 4.8, although there are certainly
several of those.

Count me as a usually happy CURRENT user.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634