Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:22:13 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do Dell-Notebooks work with FreeBSD (video/audio/wlan)? Message-ID: <41AA2565.7060504@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <41AA0C8D.2070805@thcproductions.com> References: <86is7qot95.fsf@ewido.net> <41AA0C8D.2070805@thcproductions.com>
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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
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