From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 21:22:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAE816A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:22:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from server1.ewido.net (server1.ewido.net [62.146.43.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABDBA43D54 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:22:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@ewido.net) Received: from JENNA (p5495DD1B.dip.t-dialin.net [84.149.221.27]) by server1.ewido.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8834A8026 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:21:43 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Paul Kaletta Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:22:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: <41FA969C.1030504@computerking.ca> (RYAN vAN GINNEKEN's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:46:36 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, windows-nt) References: <41FA969C.1030504@computerking.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Dell Inspiton 8600 notebook and Power Managment X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 21:22:39 -0000 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