Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:22:36 +0100 From: Paul Kaletta <paul@ewido.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Dell Inspiton 8600 notebook and Power Managment Message-ID: <lladuu3n.fsf@ewido.net> In-Reply-To: <41FA969C.1030504@computerking.ca> (RYAN vAN GINNEKEN's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:46:36 -0700") References: <41FA969C.1030504@computerking.ca>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi, I just got a Dell 8600 notebook. FreeBSD installed rather smothly and pretty much everything worked out of the box. Excepty memory managment. I have to say that I didn't investigate this issue very far yet. The handbook doesn't go very deep and the ACPI related manpages are very brief. I think that this notebook is pretty common and some of you certainly have similar problems. Please share your experience. I observed the following issues: The notebook runs rather hot. Under windows xp it is much cooler and also the build in ventilator (what's the proper english word for those spinning thing? I can't say the cooler spins up, can I? :-)) doesn't spin up that often. I experimented a little with suspending the system. acpiconf -s 5 works (it just halts the system and powers off). acpiconf -s 3 restarts the computer after suspending. The handbook suggests putting hw.acpi.disable_on_poweroff="0" in loader.conf. That doesn't work for me. acpiconf -s 1 make the computer sleep, howerver the display remains on. If I press the powerbutton, it wakes up. The connection to the USB-mouse is lost, but the system imediatelly recognizes it again. Unfortunatelly moused dies and has to be restarted again. After I played around with suspending the system I wanted to listen to mp3-music. I noticed that the pitch of the sound was slightly higher than usual, so that voices sounded pretty funny. This phenomenon went away after a reboot. Oh, and a final question: Can anyone recommed a good (preferably console) utility that can show me various Power Managment things like battery level, CPU-Throttling settings, CPU-Frequency and so on? Thanks Paul
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?lladuu3n.fsf>