On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:01:18PM -0600, Joe Vender wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:39, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> >
> > It does try to detect it; the problem is apparently that your BIOS
> > lies and says "yep, ACPI capable!", but is in fact too buggy to use.
> > Look for a BIOS update if p
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 19:39, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> It does try to detect it; the problem is apparently that your BIOS
> lies and says "yep, ACPI capable!", but is in fact too buggy to use.
> Look for a BIOS update if possible.
>
> kris
I hate to say it, but I spoke to soon or jinxed mysel
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 07:20:47PM -0600, Joe Vender wrote:
> I think I've fixed the spontaneous reboot and system hang problem I've been
> having with FBSD 6.1 & 6.2 as described in earlier threads of the same
> subject. I'm now using FBSD 6.2 to send this message.
>
> What I did was to set a h
I think I've fixed the spontaneous reboot and system hang problem I've been
having with FBSD 6.1 & 6.2 as described in earlier threads of the same
subject. I'm now using FBSD 6.2 to send this message.
What I did was to set a hint in /boot/device.hints and also /boot/loader.conf
to disable acpi
On Saturday 27 January 2007 00:41, Ian Smith wrote:
> In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 17
> As Message: 14
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:15:10 -0600 Joe Vender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> Joe, I'm going to hack your message pretty mercilessly ..
>
> > I need Help with a FBSD spontaneous
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Ian Smith wrote:
> Sounds like an issue, but I don't think you need to recompile a kernel
> to get APM, if you add 'hint.apm.0.disabled=0' to /boot/loader.conf it
> should load with GENERIC. It does on 5.x anyway, though I did compile
> an APM kernel later, after getting
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 18
As Message: 6
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:36:14 -0600 Joe Vender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Argh, digests .. sorry, this came in just after my previous post:
> On Friday 26 January 2007 18:18, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>
> > The GUI commands within KDE are
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 17
As Message: 14
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:15:10 -0600 Joe Vender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joe, I'm going to hack your message pretty mercilessly ..
> I need Help with a FBSD spontaneous rebooting and freezing issue.
> Here's a quick description of m
On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Joe Vender wrote:
The fact that you can shutdown within Linux suggests that your
hardware does have the capability, so it's just a matter of figuring
out what's different. Note that you might find that trying to run
FreeBSD 4.11 to be informative, as the defaults for
On Friday 26 January 2007 18:18, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> The GUI commands within KDE are going to invoke the command-line
> shutdown command with the appropriate arguments. What may be going
> on is that your old hardware only supports the older form of power
> management/shutdown mechanism, called
On Jan 26, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Joe Vender wrote:
On Friday 26 January 2007 17:41, Tore Lund wrote:
You issue the command "shutdown -p now". This should work with
any BIOS
that has apm or acpi, as far as I know.
I've tried that, but it didn't power off, just got to the halted
step. What
ab
On Friday 26 January 2007 17:41, Tore Lund wrote:
>
> You issue the command "shutdown -p now". This should work with any BIOS
> that has apm or acpi, as far as I know.
I've tried that, but it didn't power off, just got to the halted step. What
about issuing the "Shutdown computer" from KDE logou
Joe Vender wrote:
> One last question. How do I get FBSD to completely power off my computer when
> I shut down, both from KDE and from console? When I shutdown, it just gets to
> the "system halted, press any key to reboot" prompt and doesn't completely
> power off. In slackware, all I have to
On Friday 26 January 2007 15:04, Derek Ragona wrote:
> Sounds like an IRQ conflict as your serial port is not on IRQ 3. I would
> look into the BIOS settings, and set the port explicitly for IRQ 3, and not
> automatic if this is possible.
>
The configurable settings in my BIOS setup don't include
Sounds like an IRQ conflict as your serial port is not on IRQ 3. I would
look into the BIOS settings, and set the port explicitly for IRQ 3, and not
automatic if this is possible.
-Derek
At 02:15 PM 1/26/2007, Joe Vender wrote:
I need Help with a FBSD spontaneous rebooting and freezi
I need Help with a FBSD spontaneous rebooting and freezing issue.
Here's a quick description of my computer system:
I have a Compaq Presario 5184 desktop about 7 or 8 years old
AMD K6-2 processor @ 380MHz
320Mb RAM, 8Mb dedicated to video via BIOS
Quantum Bigfoot TS-6.4A Hard Drive (~6Gb capacity
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