Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:01:11 +0200 From: Patrick Hurrelmann <outi@bytephobia.de> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops Message-ID: <44B3F577.9090101@bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops have
> with FreeBSD?
>
> Warner
Hi Warner,
I really like Dells. Especially the Latitude-series. Personally I run
FreeBSD on a Latitude D600 since 5.1-CURRENT. All works like a charm,
except ACPI suspend/resume and the Broadcom WLAN. It was exchanged by a
ath-card some years ago.
At work I have my hands on several Latitude D610, but I never managed to
try FreeBSD on them. But I have good reports from FreeBSD-users.
Since some weeks I own a Latitude D620 (DualCore) and it really rocks,
altough some things don't work atm. ACPI suspend/resume doesn't work at
all like usual. Intel 3945ABG WLAN (even NDIS fails) and Intel HDA audio
are unsupported (patches from multimedia@ won't build) at the moment. I
did not test hotkeys till know. Xorg works like a charm, too. I chose
the embedded nVidia Quadro graphics card :)
Some other glitches:
- Gigabit nic (bge) only works with a patch, but it still gets firmware
handshake timeouts (see current@)
- SATA needs patch with updated PCI-IDs
- usb (UHCI) also needs patch with updated PCI-IDs
But the overall performance, design and handling rocks on this one. I
can highly recommend this one. I'm very optimistic in getting it quite
well supported in the near future.
Patrick
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