From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 27 11:39:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E67F716A4CE; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:39:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5763743D31; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:39:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.110]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I4P00AO9707ROC0@l-daemon>; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:38:31 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.150]) by pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I4P00GGH70745L0@pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca>; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:38:31 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.233.42])2003)) with ESMTP id <0I4P003M8707HA@l-daemon>; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 05:38:31 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 04:38:30 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <20040927111438.GA865@genius.tao.org.uk> To: Josef Karthauser Message-id: <4157FBB6.6060508@wadham.ox.ac.uk> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <20040927111438.GA865@genius.tao.org.uk> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040922) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:59:53 +0000 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:40:00 -0000 Josef Karthauser wrote: > My Dell Inspiron 5000e is getting a bit long in the tooth, and the > keyboard has just packed in :( so I'm in the market for a new laptop. > Does anyone have any recommendations for me? In particular I want a > working ACPI/suspend interface and this Dell has never been supported > well - fans on all the time, doesn't resume properly, etc. The only problems I've had with my 600m / D600 are: 1. Upon resuming from S1, moused is confused and needs to be restarted; 2. The S3 sleep state is mis-implemented as "reboot"; and 3. The S4 sleep state doesn't exist. Fans work perfectly, acpi_video can control the display properly, and S1 works fine apart from the mouse problem. Colin Percival