From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Feb 21 14:44:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CCD37B491 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:44:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f1LMgDl65628; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:42:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) 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: <200102212029.f1LKTA008941@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:44:00 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: David Wolfskill Subject: RE: Dell Inspiron 5000e vs. Chembook 3015A vs. Compal N38W2 (N30 Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Feb-01 David Wolfskill wrote: > This is rather long, and is a query about features, vs. a report of a > problem or solution to same. So if this doesn't interest you (at this > time), you might want to just go on to whatever's next in your queue. I am running -current on a 5000e and X 4.0.2 will work at 1600x1200 with no problems. For 4.0.2 at least, you have to lie to X in XF86Config to get it to setup the screen properly (set bogus horiz and vert refresh rates), but I think they just fixed that in the latest X-cvs, and I will be rebuilding X and testing that in a bit. I do have the Rage128 with 16MB of RAM, FWIW, and X is running on it at 24bpp. Other quirks on the 5000e: APM won't work cause the BIOS is busted. In -current the volume buttons for the sound card will work though, and the sound will work in both -stable and -current. Cardbus doesn't work in current due to a PCI resource allocation bug, but regular old pccard works ok under both OLDCARD and NEWCARD. I haven't played with the touchpad as far as remapping buttons, so I'm not sure if that will be a problem for you. If you want to run -current, then you can run ACPI on the 5000e to get some things like battery status and temperature reporting (with some patches I hope to commit soon) and also things like the power button turning the machine off after performing a clean shutdown, etc. -- 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