Re: A modern laptop on which suspend and resume works reliably?
Rainer Duffner <[email protected]>
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Vishwanathan S V N schrieb: > Hi! > > I am in the market for a laptop (preferably a Thinkpad or a lightweight Dell). I am looking for something which is FreeBSD (or DesktopBSD) compatible. In particular, a machine on which ACPI suspend and resume work reliably. Any suggestions? Can you please send me your hardware configuration? > > I am also interested to know about experiences with wireless, function keys, and docking stations. > > Thanks in advance. > > AFAIK, any modern laptop (Merom or AMD platform) will have to have the 2nd core deactivated to actually have a chance for a working ACPI. That doesn't mean that ACPI suspend/resume actually works then, though. Sadly, the same is also true for older chipsets (Centrino), though there are some IBMs where it actually works. This is not to blame the developers, the situation isn't much better in Linux-land. In fact, you can get enough reports about various versions of Windows not correctly waking up from the various sleep-states again, on various laptops from various vendors ;-) Old PowerBooks and iBooks were supposedly the platforms with the best suspend-resume track-record. The new ones are coming close, but they're still not perfect. Have you thought about a MacBook? cheers, Rainer _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"