From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 28 22:22:26 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A186716A468 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:22:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350C013C46A for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:22:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id l7SLX9Oa086410 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:33:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 164 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA07236FDA for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:33:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id 569B680; Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:33:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:33:08 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070828213308.GA18553@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.164]); Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:33:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/4089/Tue Aug 28 22:45:06 2007 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 46D49495.004 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 01:58:03 +0000 Subject: Re: Can I use FreeBSD-current?? (sony vaio hardware) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:22:26 -0000 > Sadly, very little information about FreeBSD-7 can be > found on the net. My hardware is Sony Vaio FJ170/B > (FJ1S/W) laptop. Please let me know if you have > experience with any of the following: > > 1. CPU frequency scaling for Intel(R) Pentium(R) M > processor 1.73GHz (centrino). > > 2. Hibernate / Standby support for Intel Corporation > Mobile 915GM chipset > > 3. Wireless with an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless > 2200BG card > > 4. Sony ACPI support for screen brightness adjustment I have a recent Sony Vaio (VGN-C1) running under 6.2 RELEASE First note that sound works very well with the binary snd_hda from Ariff Abdullah. http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/lowlatency/ 1) seems to work 2) doesn't work at all. Even halt -p hangs before shutting down the computer. I have tried a recent CURRENT, does the same. Once i got in the debugger, the machine apparently hanged while powering down the pccard controller. 3) works with Damien Bergamini driver 20070121-wpi-freebsd but maybe produces memory corruption (tolerable ...) 4) works with kernel module acpi_sony. Only needs to tweak a sysctl to adjust screen brightness, the keyboard key is not recognized. The worse problem is ACPI, it doesn't work OK with Ubuntu either. All in one, and despite memory corruption with Intel wireless the laptop works better with FreeBSD than Ubuntu for me. -- Michel TALON