Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-07 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Thomas Vetere wrote: Yep, Claudio is correct. I have an old 600e and this is an official statement from IBM support page long ago: *"The ThinkPad 600E is ACPI ready. ACPI is not installed, but the system hardware supports ACPI. While ACPI shows a great deal of promise for the future,

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-04 Thread Michael Hekeler
Am 03.07.23 22:45 schrieb Claudio Jeker: > Also keep in mind that laptops that old most often had bad or broken early > ACPI implementations and it was better to not enable ACPI on those. > Normally there was some BIOS knob to just use apm(4) which often worked > much better. Ah - very

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-04 Thread Michael Hekeler
> Jul 3, 2023 14:47:57 Peter N. M. Hansteen : > > > I had to look this up, since I had forgotten that Thinkpads used to come > with model numbers not prefixed and/or postfixed with letters. > > I think one of several issues you will bump into is that the machine is > almost a quarter century

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-03 Thread Thomas Vetere
Yep, Claudio is correct. I have an old 600e and this is an official statement from IBM support page long ago: *"The ThinkPad 600E is ACPI ready. ACPI is not installed, but the system hardware supports ACPI. While ACPI shows a great deal of promise for the future, numerous problems affect the

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-03 Thread Claudio Jeker
Also keep in mind that laptops that old most often had bad or broken early ACPI implementations and it was better to not enable ACPI on those. Normally there was some BIOS knob to just use apm(4) which often worked much better. On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 08:58:45PM +0200, Daniele B. wrote: > Thanks

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-03 Thread Daniele B.
Thanks Peter, point got. I also go ahead with very old hardware, kind of 10 years old minipc/pc (including a Mac Pro).. and we are in so good habits with our OpenBSD os that we tend to think no problem will never arise. Saddly enough we maybe forget what is really feasible.. -- Daniele Bonini

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-03 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 01:36:10PM +0200, Michael Hekeler wrote: > oh dear I have forgotten the model number - Sorry! > > It is Thinkpad 570 I had to look this up, since I had forgotten that Thinkpads used to come with model numbers not prefixed and/or postfixed with letters. I think one of

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-03 Thread Daniele B.
At my side Really Old sounds good like the Mac Pro.. ;) -- Daniele Bonini Jul 3, 2023 13:36:50 Michael Hekeler : > Am 03.07.23 03:45 schrieb Anders Andersson: >> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:44 PM Michael Hekeler wrote: >>> >>> I have an old thinkpad - really old >> >> Old enough not to

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-03 Thread Michael Hekeler
Am 03.07.23 03:45 schrieb Anders Andersson: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:44 PM Michael Hekeler wrote: > > > > I have an old thinkpad - really old > > Old enough not to have a model number? oh dear I have forgotten the model number - Sorry! It is Thinkpad 570

Re: APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-07-02 Thread Anders Andersson
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:44 PM Michael Hekeler wrote: > > I have an old thinkpad - really old Old enough not to have a model number?

APCI on old Thinkpad

2023-06-30 Thread Michael Hekeler
I have an old thinkpad - really old On booting it stops when listing the acpi sleep states and does nothing more. This is dmesg: OpenBSD 7.3 (GENERIC) #660: Sat Mar 25 11:17:44 MDT 2023 dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC real mem = 200753152 (191MB) avail mem =