From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 16:47:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E4016A4CE for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ultra5.eskimo.com (ultra5.eskimo.com [204.122.16.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8159B43D5C for ; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:47:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joji@eskimo.com) Received: from eskimo.com (joji@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by ultra5.eskimo.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iB2GkeBZ018427; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:46:41 -0800 Received: (from joji@localhost) by eskimo.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id IAA25434; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:46:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 08:46:40 -0800 From: Joseph Olatt To: David Wolfskill Message-ID: <20041202084640.A24351@eskimo.com> References: <200412020105.iB215hia004502@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200412020105.iB215hia004502@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:05:43PM -0800 cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Susceptibility of Dell 8200 to thermal stress/fatigue? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:47:15 -0000 On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:05:43PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote: > > Now, it looks as if the Dell Latitude C840 is fairly similar to the > Inspiron 8200. As far as running FreEBSD on the machine, are there any > salient differences? > > And does anyone have any ideas as to how susceptible either is to > thermal stress? > I've been running FreeBSD (exclusively) on a Dell Inspiron 8200 for about 1 1/2 years now. My usage is not as heavy as yours, though. Currently I'm running 5.3-STABLE and some of the issues that I have are: 1. Interrupt storm on PCI bus and irq11 - I'm yet to figure out how to resolve this one. 2. If you are using the parallel port, you need to put the lpt0 in polled mode as opposed to using an IRQ (again, because of interrupt storms). Overall, it runs FreeBSD quite well. I suspect the Latitudes, geared for the corporate user, are probably more robust with proven components. regards, --joseph > This comes into play because I keep a local copy of the FreeBSD CVS > repository on my laptop, updated daily, and have been tracking RELENG_4 > as often as the corresponding working directory changed (usually, > daily). I had been tracking HEAD (on another slice) until RELENG_5 was > branched, and I then tracked RELENG_5. (I do have a slice for HEAD, but > 2 buildworlds in a day was eating into my time a bit much; 3 just > wouldn't be feasible. I'll probably resume tracking HEAD once I migrate > my production machines at home to 5.x.) > > (Yes, I am aware that some folks have encountered some challenges with > suspend/resume and with making the lid switch behave "properly." And > that I will probably be making the acquaintance of the NVidia driver in > ports.) > > That last reminds me of another bit of workload for the machine -- a > daily "portupgrade -a". > > Comments? > > Thanks! > > Peace, > david > --Peace, > david > -- > David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org > I resent spammers because spam is a DoS attack on my time. > > See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for public key. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"