From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 15:57:45 2003 Return-Path: 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 B89C116A4BF; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:57:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7FA143F93; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (localhost.marcuscom.com [127.0.0.1]) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7MMvgXE031643; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:57:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost)h7MMvg3u031640; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:57:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:57:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030822185052.A31555@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: [UPDATE] Inspiron 5150 and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 22:57:46 -0000 After a lot of bad luck with ACPI and my new Inspiron 5150, something good happened today. I went to Dell's site, and they had a BIOS update for my machine that took it to rev A23. This was actually an update from PhoenixBIOS to DellBIOS. Once I got that installed, I went to Stijn Hoop's Dell page at: http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php And followed his steps to add the Dell fixes. Note, the last chunk of the dell-dsl.patch fails to apply, but that seems to be okay. Once I reboot with the patch, ACPI seems much happier. I am able to get correct battery status, the screen dims when I pull the AC, and sleep state S1 seems to work. Note, S3 causes the laptop to reload, but I think this may have to do with Firewire (but I'm not sure). If anyone's interested, I can provide a stack trace. Something else to note, that after this BIOS update, USB 2 seems to work now. That is, I can add a USB 2.0 jump disk, and it recognizes it, and allows me to mount it. Moral of the story: if you have a Dell Inspiron 5150 (and maybe 5100), getting on the latest BIOS is a good thing. Joe PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc