From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 28 19:22:16 2004 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 4175D16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:22:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7FA43D55 for ; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:22:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (12-216-243-9.client.mchsi.com[12.216.243.9]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20041128192214m9100ce642e>; Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:22:14 +0000 Message-ID: <41AA2565.7060504@math.missouri.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:22:13 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041116 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <86is7qot95.fsf@ewido.net> <41AA0C8D.2070805@thcproductions.com> In-Reply-To: <41AA0C8D.2070805@thcproductions.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: How do Dell-Notebooks work with FreeBSD (video/audio/wlan)? 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: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:22:16 -0000 I have a Dell Latitude D800 under FreeBSD 5.3. This Dell was, I think, not quite the latest as I bought it on sale. The GeForce FX Go5200 with the 1680x1050 screen (I think that I have the older version of the screen) works well with the nv driver, although I had to do some googling to find the mode line for that resolution. I could never get the nvidia driver to work - it would always make the computer freeze, although someone else told me that they could get it to work with FreeBSD 4.x. The sound works, but I haven't listened to it enough to decide if it is really good. The Dell TrueMobile 1300 WLAN Mini-PCI Card works somewhat with the ndis0 driver, but the only way to get it to work is to put the appropriate commands in /etc/rc.conf and reboot - I haven't found a way to make it work without the reboot. But with the reboot I was able to get it to work. Overall a pleasant experience, but the road wasn't totally smooth in getting it to work. Stephen