FreeBSD 6 on Toshiba Tecra A4

[Yousef Raffah]

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 <yraffah at savola.com> 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.
>  > > B
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I have disabled acpi and enabled apm in my kernel as
>  > # Power management support (see NOTES for more options)
>  > device          apm
>  > # Add suspend/resume support for the i8254.
>  > device          pmtimer
>  > 
>  > This what happens when I run apmd in debug mode:
>  > 
>  > # apmd -d -v
>  > apmd[15918]: start
>  > apmd: cannot open device file `/dev/apm': No such file or directory
>  > 
>  > How can I have /dev/apm?
> 
> On 5.x at least, /boot/device.hints contains
> 
>  hint.apm.0.disabled="1"
>  hint.apm.0.flags="0x20"
> 
> 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
> 
> 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 :(.

I even added the following
> In rc.conf:
> 
>  apm_enable="YES"
>  apmd_enable="YES"
>  apmd_flags="-v"
> 
But no help :( Thanks for trying anyhow...


> cheers, Ian
> 
>  > Using 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #0: Sat Apr 29 17:16:15 AST 2006
>  > 
>  > This is my dmesg:
> 
> [..]
> 
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Yousef Raffah
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