From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 22 15:59:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (hand.dotat.at [212.240.134.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B325437B7A3 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:59:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fanf@hand.dotat.at) Received: (from fanf@localhost) by hand.dotat.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA09784; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:59:42 GMT (envelope-from fanf@hand.dotat.at) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:59:42 GMT Message-Id: <200006222159.VAA09784@hand.dotat.at> X-Authentication-Warning: hand.dotat.at: fanf set sender to fanf@hand.dotat.at using -f From: Tony Finch To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Dell Latitude CPx, pccard, X & apm Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On the whole this machine works very nicely with FreeBSD apart from two niggles: (1) the pccard system seems rather inept at allocating interrupts; it likes to choose irq3 first (which was sio1 until I disabled that in the BIOS so that I could use my ethernet card) and then it chooses irq5 which is pci0: (vendor=0x125d, dev=0x1998) at 8.0 irq 5 i.e. both these choices lead to IRQ conflicts! The free IRQs are 8, 13, and 15. (2) the various bits of BIOS magic (dropping into setup and the APM functionality) only work in text mode, not in X. The whole machine seems to lock *hard* when attempting to enter the BIOS from X, to the extent that I have to unplug the AC power and the batteries in order to recover control. (The ATI Mach64 X server also has a tendency to get stuck in a less severe fashion (it loops but the rest of the machine is OK) if I enable the power saving functionality but that could be because it is a work-in-progress according to the README.) My BIOS version (according to the setup screen) is A05; Dell's web site has version A07 for download but it's in some freaky Windows-specific format that I can't extract; if anyone can provide me with the extracted floppy image I would be grateful. Tony (not used Windows since 1999!). -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at 375 gravity's pull when your cavity's full To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message