Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:05:58 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest laptop recommendations Message-ID: <199912080606.WAA12179@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 21:58:18 PST." <199912080558.VAA15689@mina.sr.hp.com>
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> > > [ 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.). Yeah. This seems to have a lot to do with Dell's ideas about who buys their laptops. Eg. the Inspiron is meant to have big disks, big displays, but no connectivity and limited "technical" features. If you read between the lines, it sounds like it's meant to be the "manager" model, and the performance is purely coincidental. 8( -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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