Re: Dell laptops

On Tuesday 11 July 2006 23:54, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 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?
>
> Here it is:
>
>    http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/e1405.acpi.dump
>
> I don't know how to decipher it nor what to do with it.
There doesn't seem to be a function key device.  This probably means 
that pressing the keys just generate keyboard scan codes.

Does acpi_video work for you?  It looks like it should work.

-- 
Anish Mistry

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