Multiple issues (FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE)

[Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3)]

I will try reflashing the BIOS with the latest ROMpaq.

illoai at gmail.com wrote:

> On 01/06/07, Lucas (a.k.a T-Bird or bsdfan3) <tbird-contact at cox.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Hardware: Compaq Presario 1200-XL118
>> AMD K6-2 500MHz
>> 64MB of RAM
>> Trident CyberBlade i7 video with 4MB shared RAM
>> 6GB ATA66 HD
>> Linksys 10/100 PCCard Ethernet (using ed driver)
>>
>> OS: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE using GENERIC kernel
>>
>> Issues:
>> 1) The machine will not turn off when I try to soft-off it (ACPI S5
>> state, shutdown -r or -p).  How do I fix this?
>
>
> In my experience most of the stuff built around the
> AMD k6 junk (circa 1998) had horrible ACPI support,
> nonstandard and incomplete, where possible.  I have
> a lurking suspicion that they advertised these things
> as only working correctly under winders (Optimised
> for Windows 98! Now with nearly intel compliant MMX!).
> A bios upgrade _might_ solve it.
> A lot of those older machines (supposedly) support apm,
> so fiddling with apm(8) might give some answers.
> You might have to load the module or uncomment the
> device apm line and recompile your kernel.
>