Re: Dell laptops
Eric Anderson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 07/11/06 14:01, Patrick Hurrelmann wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops have >> with FreeBSD? >> >> Warner > > Hi Warner, > > I really like Dells. Especially the Latitude-series. Personally I run > FreeBSD on a Latitude D600 since 5.1-CURRENT. All works like a charm, > except ACPI suspend/resume and the Broadcom WLAN. It was exchanged by a > ath-card some years ago. > > At work I have my hands on several Latitude D610, but I never managed to > try FreeBSD on them. But I have good reports from FreeBSD-users. > > Since some weeks I own a Latitude D620 (DualCore) and it really rocks, > altough some things don't work atm. ACPI suspend/resume doesn't work at > all like usual. Intel 3945ABG WLAN (even NDIS fails) and Intel HDA audio > are unsupported (patches from multimedia@ won't build) at the moment. I > did not test hotkeys till know. Xorg works like a charm, too. I chose > the embedded nVidia Quadro graphics card :) > > Some other glitches: > - Gigabit nic (bge) only works with a patch, but it still gets firmware > handshake timeouts (see current@) Yes, I forgot that the bge nic acts funny.. Can you point me to the patch please? > - SATA needs patch with updated PCI-IDs Really? The D820 (presumably the same motherboard) works without any patches.. > - usb (UHCI) also needs patch with updated PCI-IDs Same with this.. > But the overall performance, design and handling rocks on this one. I > can highly recommend this one. I'm very optimistic in getting it quite > well supported in the near future. > > Patrick > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"