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Date:      Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:42:38 -0700
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with Dell Precision M4800 (laptop)?
Message-ID:  <20150319024238.GC1215@albert.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150318193419.GA1215@albert.catwhisker.org>
References:  <20150318193419.GA1215@albert.catwhisker.org>

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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:34:19PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> [Replacing Dell Precision M4400 with M4800...]

An update:
> Here's the current status:
> + FreeBSD (both stable/10 & head) boots (desite an occasional "invalid
>   partition table!" BIOS message at boot).

A complete rebuild of FreeBSD stable/10 @279586 took about 26 minutes.

> - Despite updating to the recent x11/nvidia-driver port, I have been
>   unable (so far) to get X running.  (It whines about an inability to
>   find any screens.)
>=20
> - Attempts to suspend (to RAM) have uniformly failed so far.  I have
>   thus not attempted to resume.

Changing the BIOS "Switchable Video" option from the default "on" to
"off" appears to have resolved both of the above.

> ...
> I've placed a handful of files under
> <http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/m4800/>:
> ...=20
> I'll try grabbing a dmesg.boot and adding that in when I get a chance
> (probably tonight).

It's a stable/10 non-verbose dmesg.boot, but it's there.

Peace,
david
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David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
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