Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:15:18 -0400 (EDT) From: john@utzweb.net To: "Daniel Eischen" <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops Message-ID: <33102.69.93.78.27.1152832518.squirrel@69.93.78.27> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111351360.24473@sea.ntplx.net> References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111252150.24473@sea.ntplx.net> <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111351360.24473@sea.ntplx.net>
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> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote: > >> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote: >>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote: >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops >>>> have with FreeBSD? >>> >>> Yeah, thanks for asking! My Inspiron E1405 came with an Intel >>> 3945 A/B/G mini-PCI wireless that isn't supported (OpenBSD has >>> a seemingly actively maintained wpi driver for this card, and >>> I have an experimental FreeBSD driver from damien that I haven't >>> yet been able to get to work). I've ordered an Atheros-based >>> mini-PCI in the meantime, and can lend out the 3945 to anyone >>> willing to work on it. >>> >>> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control >>> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the >>> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2). Even if the wpi driver >>> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio. >> >> It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your system. >> Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system? > > I'll do that later when I get access to it, but I did try > disabling ACPI and it still didn't work. Would that make > a difference? if you turn off acpi and enable apm on 6.1-RELEASE then all the buttons work, at least on my Latitude C400, YMMV. i really liked being able to suspend to disk; that's absolutely broken with ACPI I moved up to CURRENT with my laptop because i want to contribute to *fixing* this stuff, so i cant offer too much help on 6-X anymore > -- > DE > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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