From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 13 6:26:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from martens.math.ntnu.no (martens.math.ntnu.no [129.241.15.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 120A137B42C for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 06:26:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14204 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2000 13:26:40 -0000 Received: from localhost (13799@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 13 Sep 2000 13:26:40 -0000 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dell laptops In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on Emacs 20.6 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20000913152640G.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:26:40 +0200 From: Harald Hanche-Olsen X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 21 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org + Joao Pedras : | I need some feedback from people that may have bought recently DELL | laptops (Latitude, Inspiron) and run FreeBSD on them. Define recently. Last two weeks? 8-) Anyway, I got an I3500 last October, which ran 3.2R right out of the box. Lately I upgraded to 4.1R, and still no major problem (though I had to turn off the (unused) network devices in the boot config, or else the install kernel just crashed). Sound doesn't work, but I can play CDs using xcd. One minor problem: If there is a disk in the zip drive when I suspend the machine, I only get I/O errors when trying to access the drive later. Then on shutdown, syncing fails, and for some reason even the remaining file system are marked dirty. I assume this is a problem with the new afd driver. Before, with the zip drive on wfd, this never happened. - Harald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message