Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:00:45 -0800 From: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: acpi@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> Subject: Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops (was: Laptop choices) Message-ID: <20051123230045.GO63070@hut.isi.edu> In-Reply-To: <20051123195120.GE908@eucla.lemis.com> References: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> <20051123195120.GE908@eucla.lemis.com>
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--ctUzwJm0i+kwMBIK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:51:20PM +0100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 November 2005 at 17:12:46 -0800, Graham North wrote: > > Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck > > winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. > > > > Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless > > or > > IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. > > The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...? > > Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices? > > Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0? >=20 > I've had both Dell and ThinkPad (no longer IBM). I prefer Dell, > despite their attempts to convince me otherwise. >=20 > However, we currently seem to have significant ACPI problems with Dell > laptops. I'm writing this on an Inspiron 6000 running 7-CURRENT, but > the same problems occur with 6.0: if I enable ACPI, timing goes to > hell, and some things just time out. Is *that* what's happening to my 6000 running CURRENT? I've noticed that under load my bfe0 interface sometimes just wanders off and needs to be re-ifconfiged to get going again. And its throughput generally sucks, but I haven't had a chance to try to run things down. If you want someone to check patches or try to reproduce problems, please let me know. --=20 Ted Faber http://www.isi.edu/~faber PGP: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkeys.= asc Unexpected attachment on this mail? See http://www.isi.edu/~faber/FAQ.html#= SIG --ctUzwJm0i+kwMBIK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDhPSdaUz3f+Zf+XsRAhTsAJ9KNcCQjsbEa9RvfeIJL3yVZMy8ngCffEnm EU/BW0ywxG7KBZP4CNk61aA= =HIac -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ctUzwJm0i+kwMBIK--
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