Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:28:33 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org> To: Espen Tagestad <espen@modula.no> Cc: C O <christophermobrien3@yahoo.com>, Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions please Message-ID: <20050602132833.GU54337@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <429EC08B.8030409@modula.no> References: <20050602044847.24791.qmail@web60413.mail.yahoo.com> <1117696191.429eb0bf7aab8@www.domainfactory-webmail.de> <429EC08B.8030409@modula.no>
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Hi Espen, hi Christopher,
> >>Anyone know of a laptop that FreeBSD supports well
> >>enough to use all of its capabilities?
> >>
>
> Stay away from all modern Acer laptops. They use "Smart batteries" which
> is not supported in FreeBSD yet. That means you'll be unable to retrieve
> battery information. It's on the ACPI todo list, but it's not
> implemented yet, not even on CURRENT.
I bought an Acer Extensa 4100 and I could get the battery state
immediately due to standard DSDT (see this thread). Brunot Ducrot
fixed this for me, but it still need to use the following lines in
loader.conf(5) :
%%%
acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/DSDT.aml"
%%%
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-May/050498.html
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Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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