Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:15:49 +0800 From: Ariff Abdullah <ariff@FreeBSD.org> To: "Chavdar Ivanov" <ci4ic4@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD laptop Message-ID: <20061116121549.083d84f0.ariff@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <bc8ff1fd0611150152i72376ae2p88e6a8ff9f2555c8@mail.gmail.com> References: <8a0028260611141810x4ab26d9aq9fc4d3197d91288@mail.gmail.com> <20061115040452.GS2087@main.mathisen.org> <bc8ff1fd0611150152i72376ae2p88e6a8ff9f2555c8@mail.gmail.com>
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--Signature=_Thu__16_Nov_2006_12_15_49_+0800_3ObxnOM3YxMCKigS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:52:07 +0000 "Chavdar Ivanov" <ci4ic4@gmail.com> wrote: > .... >=20 > I am currently using HP nx6310; after the initial problem with npx > freezing when MULTIPROCESSOR is on, I an reasonably happy with it. > The wireless (wpi) works (but not with wpa_supplicant for me), the > Ethernet (bce) as well (I just have to disconnect the power supply > for a moment when rebooting from XP). The only minor gripe is that I > could not get the audio (azalia) work through the speakers, but it I this the case for FreeBSD? There is a tiny quirk for nx6310 which supposed to do speaker/headphone automuting and EAPD switch (eapd switch through mixer "ogain"). > works fine through the headphones; also the SATA controller has to > be set to compatibility mode for NetBSD, which is weird, as the > native mode is supported by both OpenBSD-current and > FreeBSD-current. I haven't yet tried seriously suspend/resume. The > graphics - Intel 945 - works in VESA mode under XFree86, but I > installed Xorg 6.9 from pkgsrc and this is now served by the I810 > driver, so it's OK. Otherwise it looks quite well built; one may not > like the 15" screen with 1024x768 native resolution. though (or, > maybe, like - depends on one's eyes...). >=20 > As far as OpenBSD-current is concerned, I just booted the > installation CD and collected the dmesg (posted earlier in > current-users@), but it looked OK at this stage. >=20 > I tried at one stage FreeBSD6.2 Beta1, but did not get the wireless > and the azalia working straight from the CD (I found an OSS audio > driver, but did not want to deal with bits from outside of it; as I There is a patchset along with binary kmod for azalia/HDA for your convenience, and yes, it will be included in future releases (not in 6.2 though). http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/ , ~ariff/lowlatency/ > have another ath wireless card, which worked, I did not bother to > look at the wpi one). >=20 -- Ariff Abdullah FreeBSD ... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced and confusing for us idiot ***** users :P ........ --Signature=_Thu__16_Nov_2006_12_15_49_+0800_3ObxnOM3YxMCKigS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFW+X4lr+deMUwTNoRAhoDAJ9LdATMMGyGhOHJdfuD6RMvePZGCQCfaFA+ Dps5Dzr4PC2sk5ebUUido8c= =vgWl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Thu__16_Nov_2006_12_15_49_+0800_3ObxnOM3YxMCKigS--
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