Re: Processor "not in table" and apm doesn't work on HP Compaq nx9030

[Andrew Daugherity <andrew_(_dot_)_daugherity_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com>]

On Apr 2, 2005 3:42 AM, Paul Tomlin <paul_(_at_)_wavebreaks_(_dot_)_com> wrote:

> > i use HP Compaq nx9030 and OpenBSD 3.7 snapshot
> > apm doesn't work too.. > apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown <
> 
> May not be related but looks fairly similar :)
> 
> Synopsis: apm/apmd not returning remaining minutes on Compaq Armada M300
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: deraadt
> State-Changed-When: Thu Mar 31 21:22:44 MST 2005
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> Welcome to the real world: Some laptop vendors ship broken APM
> implimentations.
> 
> 

Not to mention, nowadays some vendors ship laptops with no APM support
at all, expecting you to use ACPI for everything, as that's the way
Windows does it, so it must be the right way.  ;-)  This seems to be
the case with the Dell Latitude D600, at least.

Of course, they manage to screw up ACPI just as badly -- I seem to
recall several models of recent Dell laptops having the BIOS assign
PCI devices to IRQ 7, which was also used by the (ISA-attached)
parallel port, causing problems for OSes that actually respected the
BIOS IRQ assignments.

While ACPI is great when it works correctly, the problem is it doesn't
often work correctly, especially in non-Microsoft OSes.  (And
sometimes Windows screws it up too, although XP has a lot of
motherboards blacklisted/workaround'd, so it's better than win2k in
this regard.)

-Andrew