From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 13:28:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 E06C216A41C for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:28:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from postfix3-1.free.fr (postfix3-1.free.fr [213.228.0.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7326643D49 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 13:28:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tataz@tataz.chchile.org) Received: from tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (vol75-8-82-233-239-98.fbx.proxad.net [82.233.239.98]) by postfix3-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94067173484; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:28:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: by tatooine.tataz.chchile.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D66C8407E; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:28:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:28:33 +0200 From: Jeremie Le Hen To: Espen Tagestad Message-ID: <20050602132833.GU54337@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <20050602044847.24791.qmail@web60413.mail.yahoo.com> <1117696191.429eb0bf7aab8@www.domainfactory-webmail.de> <429EC08B.8030409@modula.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <429EC08B.8030409@modula.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: C O , Markus Hoenicka , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions please 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: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:28:44 -0000 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 -- Jeremie Le Hen < jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >