Subject: Re: APM problems
To: None <matthieu@laas.fr>
From: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/03/1995 08:34:41
>>>>> "Matthieu" == Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@laas.fr> writes:

Matthieu> Hi,
Matthieu> My notebook (a Texas TravelMate 4000) doesn't have the APM bios in
Matthieu> ROM. Instead it comes with .sys file to load in Dos's config.sys.  Is
Matthieu> there any way to load such drivers from NetBSD ?

In general, you are SOL in such cases.  You could disassemble the
config.sys file (assuming you aren't bound by agreements not to do so),
but that's about your only hope.

Matthieu>  Or is the hardware
Matthieu> interface documented somewhere so that I (or someone else) can write
Matthieu> the APM fonctions from scratch ?

You might be able to get details out of Texas Instruments, but I've
heard in the past that they don't like giving them out without an NDA.
(I have a TI TravelMate 5000 which has APM in ROM, but it acts a bit
strange in APM V1.1 mode)

good luck!

==John