From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 1 14: 2:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mail.imp.ch (mail.imp.ch [157.161.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634CA37B423 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 14:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from etienne@imp.ch) Received: from harem.imp.ch (harem.imp.ch [157.161.4.8]) by mail.imp.ch (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f41L25477274 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 23:02:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from etienne@imp.ch) Received: (from etienne@localhost) by harem.imp.ch (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f41L24H4152117 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 1 May 2001 23:02:04 +0200 (MES) Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 23:02:04 +0200 From: Stefan Hauser To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 and FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <20010501230204.A4149649@imp.ch> References: <86y9t0nxyg.fsf@kevin.vic.bigpond.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86y9t0nxyg.fsf@kevin.vic.bigpond.net.au>; from thutton@vet.com.au on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:59:03AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 10:59:03AM +1000, Toby Hutton wrote: > > My DVD drive isn't detected unless I wait for about a minute to boot the > > YES! I've been getting this but I hadn't found a way to fix it - I've > been DVD-less for weeks. I'll try this waiting thing out, thanks! got my inspiron 8000 on friday, and it's running 4.3 since a few hrs later :-) dvd works nice, if you wait the min. just be patient.. but would be nice, if that get's fixed. > > > Also, I can't suspend/resume which I am told is because of a BIOS bug which > > > sucks but there's not much to be done about that :) > > > (I can induce a suspend/resume OK but when the laptop comes back the fxp card > > > spits millions of 'SCB timeout' and 'DMA timeout', and it seems the ata > > > controller wedges, or doesn't reinit the controller). > > APM is the only thing not working for me now. I get 'resetting ATA > devices' upon waking up or something similar and the machine freezes. > I'm not going to freeze it now to get the proper messages... :) hmm. apm works for me. no problem at all. but i don't have the internal network/modem card. it's only the modem (lucent), and i put a 3com 574 in the pcmci slot. but apm tells me, my battery will last for 5:50hr, if it's at 100%. about twice, as it really lasts. > So for me, installing FreeBSD involved: > Polling mode didn't work for the PCIC - gave it IRQ 10, fixed. i put it on 9. > Everything else, including XFree86 4.03 @ 1400x1050 works beautifully. here too. really nice to work with it. etienne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message