From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Oct 7 22: 7:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACADA37B407 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 22:07:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 38712 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2001 05:07:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Oct 2001 05:07:26 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011007184512.BTDV19615.mta04.onebox.com@onebox.com> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 22:06:58 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Glenn Gombert Subject: RE: Current Broken on Dell Insprion 5000e ? Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 07-Oct-01 Glenn Gombert wrote: > Hello, > > I have had FreeBSD 4.3 working fine on my Dell Laptop (5000e) and then > tried to install and compile the 'Currnet' kernel on it this weekend. > It died during the bootup phase with an 'Illegal driver' message and > then it hung duing the boot process.. > > Is the state of 'Currnet' right now able to run on laptops (or is it > better to stick with the Release version(s) of FreeBSD ?? > > Thanks in advance for any advice.... The 5000e runs -current fine, however, you have to use a workaround for ACPI. Stick this in either device.hints or loader.conf: debug.acpi.avoid="_SB_.PCI0.PX40.SIO_" -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message