Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 08:43:23 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Old Way Was Better Message-ID: <20030908124323.GA731@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <3F5C5D9B.4030603@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <20030908023456.GA3126@online.fr> <3F5C5D9B.4030603@iconoplex.co.uk>
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Paul Robinson said on Sep 8, 2003 at 11:44:43: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >For around 4 months now I've been mainly using Debian because I couldn't > >get FreeBSD to work on my new laptop. > > > > What was the issue, just out of curiosity? With ACPI disabled it wouldn't boot at all, it would freeze very early in the booting process; while with ACPI enabled, it would not detect my touchpad (psm0). Apparently this issue has cropped up with various hardware over the years. I reported it on -current and -mobile. Haven't tried it recently. Also didn't try -stable because the laptop is rather crippled without ACPI (no APM bios, etc) and it works fine with Debian. I guess with the recent ACPI import into -stable it's time to try it again, there are also patches for DF.
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