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Date:      Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:15:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      john@utzweb.net
To:        "Daniel Eischen" <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell laptops
Message-ID:  <33102.69.93.78.27.1152832518.squirrel@69.93.78.27>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111351360.24473@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <20060711.104708.1159134898.imp@bsdimp.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111252150.24473@sea.ntplx.net> <200607111338.01412.mistry.7@osu.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0607111351360.24473@sea.ntplx.net>

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> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Anish Mistry wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 11 July 2006 13:10, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>> What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops
>>>> have with FreeBSD?
>>>
>>> Yeah, thanks for asking!  My Inspiron E1405 came with an Intel
>>> 3945 A/B/G mini-PCI wireless that isn't supported (OpenBSD has
>>> a seemingly actively maintained wpi driver for this card, and
>>> I have an experimental FreeBSD driver from damien that I haven't
>>> yet been able to get to work).  I've ordered an Atheros-based
>>> mini-PCI in the meantime, and can lend out the 3945 to anyone
>>> willing to work on it.
>>>
>>> Also, the Fn (the blue key) can't be used to suspend, control
>>> volume, switch CRT/LCD, etc, and most importantly enable the
>>> radio on the wireless card (Fn + F2).  Even if the wpi driver
>>> works, it's worthless if I can't enable the radio.
>>
>> It might simply need an acpi function keys driver for your system.
>> Would you post an "acpidump -dt" from your system?
>
> I'll do that later when I get access to it, but I did try
> disabling ACPI and it still didn't work.  Would that make
> a difference?

if you turn off acpi and enable apm on 6.1-RELEASE then all the buttons
work, at least on my Latitude C400, YMMV.

i really liked being able to suspend to disk; that's absolutely broken
with ACPI

I moved up to CURRENT with my laptop because i want to contribute to
*fixing* this stuff, so i cant offer too much help on 6-X anymore

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