newbie ACPI questions

2004-07-08 Thread Duane Winner
Hi all. I'm just getting my feet wet with using basic ACPI functionality. Up until my FreeBSD release and/or hardware only supported APM, so that's all I have used until now. I have a Dell Precision 650n running RELEASE-5.2.1p9, and it seems that ACPI works as far as I can tell, but I'm not

Re: newbie ACPI questions

2004-07-08 Thread User LAFFER1
I also have a precision 650 at home. What is acpi's setting in the bios? You can set it to s3 or s1 in there. I would check that. I just got my system on refurb from dell and haven't had a chance to play much yet. :) On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Duane Winner wrote: Hi all. I'm just getting my feet

Re: newbie ACPI questions

2004-07-08 Thread Duane Winner
I did try to set the BIOS to S1 (from S3) and it appears that all that does is limit the capability of ACPI. After changing, hw.acpi no longer shows S3 in the list of supported sleep states, and if I try 'zzz' or 'acpiconf -s 3', acpi reports that as unsupported. (supported states after