From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 08:21:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5F0106566B for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 08:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9098FC1C for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 08:21:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 24327 invoked by uid 89); 16 May 2008 08:21:34 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 24300, pid: 24312, t: 2.9707s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.88.7/m:44/d:4673 spam: 3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.7 Received: from unknown (HELO ?212.71.117.70?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.70) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 16 May 2008 08:21:31 -0000 Message-ID: <482D4408.5080507@ultra-secure.de> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:21:28 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080226 SUSE/2.0.0.12-1.1 Thunderbird/2.0.0.12 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vishwanathan S V N References: <230481.65636.qm@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <230481.65636.qm@web31707.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A modern laptop on which suspend and resume works reliably? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 08:21:37 -0000 Vishwanathan S V N schrieb: > Hi! > > I am in the market for a laptop (preferably a Thinkpad or a lightweight Dell). I am looking for something which is FreeBSD (or DesktopBSD) compatible. In particular, a machine on which ACPI suspend and resume work reliably. Any suggestions? Can you please send me your hardware configuration? > > I am also interested to know about experiences with wireless, function keys, and docking stations. > > Thanks in advance. > > AFAIK, any modern laptop (Merom or AMD platform) will have to have the 2nd core deactivated to actually have a chance for a working ACPI. That doesn't mean that ACPI suspend/resume actually works then, though. Sadly, the same is also true for older chipsets (Centrino), though there are some IBMs where it actually works. This is not to blame the developers, the situation isn't much better in Linux-land. In fact, you can get enough reports about various versions of Windows not correctly waking up from the various sleep-states again, on various laptops from various vendors ;-) Old PowerBooks and iBooks were supposedly the platforms with the best suspend-resume track-record. The new ones are coming close, but they're still not perfect. Have you thought about a MacBook? cheers, Rainer