From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 11 19:25:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: mobile@freebsd.org 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 B80D316A4DA for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:25:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F49843D6B for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:25:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k6BJPJ80075340; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:25:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <44B3FB24.7020904@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:25:24 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Hurrelmann References: <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <44B3F577.9090101@bytephobia.de> In-Reply-To: <44B3F577.9090101@bytephobia.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1591/Mon Jul 10 14:41:02 2006 on mh2.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:25:29 -0000 On 07/11/06 14:01, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote: > 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@) Yes, I forgot that the bge nic acts funny.. Can you point me to the patch please? > - SATA needs patch with updated PCI-IDs Really? The D820 (presumably the same motherboard) works without any patches.. > - usb (UHCI) also needs patch with updated PCI-IDs Same with this.. > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------