Re: Laptop suggestions please
Jeremie Le Hen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi Espen, hi Christopher,
> >>Anyone know of a laptop that FreeBSD supports well
> >>enough to use all of its capabilities?
> >>
>
> Stay away from all modern Acer laptops. They use "Smart batteries" which
> is not supported in FreeBSD yet. That means you'll be unable to retrieve
> battery information. It's on the ACPI todo list, but it's not
> implemented yet, not even on CURRENT.
I bought an Acer Extensa 4100 and I could get the battery state
immediately due to standard DSDT (see this thread). Brunot Ducrot
fixed this for me, but it still need to use the following lines in
loader.conf(5) :
%%%
acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/DSDT.aml"
%%%
[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-May/050498.html
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Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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