From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Dec 7 21:58:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel1.hp.com (atlrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC7E14C48; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darrylo@sr.hp.com) Received: from postal.sr.hp.com (postal.sr.hp.com [15.4.46.173]) by atlrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BE040EC; Wed, 8 Dec 1999 00:58:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from mina.sr.hp.com (root@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by postal.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id VAA18446; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:58:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (darrylo@mina.sr.hp.com [15.4.42.247]) by mina.sr.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0) id VAA15689; Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:58:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199912080558.VAA15689@mina.sr.hp.com> To: Mike Smith Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest laptop recommendations Reply-To: Darryl Okahata In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:10:08 PST." <199912080410.UAA00429@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 21:58:18 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > There was at least one other Purify-like tool that was open to being > ported; the drawback was simply getting enough customers that'd promise > to buy it. That might be Insure++ (which is, I believe, already available for Linux). I evaluated it a few months back, and it was, for our application at least, significantly slower than purify. For us, it was unusably slow. I haven't seen the Linux version, and it might be much better. > > Well, I'm using -current as of Dec. 2, +/- ~1 day. I tried the OSS > > drivers for -current just this morning, and I only got garbled sound out > > of /dev/audio. > > Sorry; I knew that audio didn't work, but I didn't want to make any > judgement about whose fault it was until after I've spoken to OSS. Oh, I most certainly am not trying to point any fingers. In fact, I'm impressed that any drivers for -current exist at all, given the unstable, constantly-changing nature of -current. > > [ I don't know if this could be causing problems, but the USB ifc, which > > I'm *not* using, is using the same IRQ as the sound ifc. > > Unfortunately, there seems to be no way (from the BIOS) to either > > disable the USB port (not that I'd want to) or change the IRQs used by > > the USB or sound devices. ] > > That's correct, and I'm trying to find someone at Dell to bitch about it > to. OSS doesn't know how to share interrupts on FreeBSD at the moment > either, making it somewhat worse. What's interesting is that my old Omnibook, which uses the same kind of Phoenix BIOS (but *older*), and allows one to enable/disable the USB and sound devices, as well as control their resources (port, IRQ, etc.). -- Darryl Okahata darrylo@sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message