Re: FreeBSD on laptops

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:21:52 +0200
Reg Me Please <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> I'm considering to move from Linux to FreeBSD on my main laptop.
> I don't have enough time resources for the "test and try" process
> I'd like to know from the community what is the status for:
> 0. Core2 Duo CPUs
> 1. Support for modern chipsets (ICH8)
> 2. support for power management (mostly ACPI and CPU clock freq. ) on laptops
> 3. support for accelerated graphic cards (nVidia GeForce 8600M GT)
> 4. support for Intel wifi (4965 AGN)
> 5. support for other hardware like audio, card readers, i-Link, USB
> 
> And, of course, any advise about FreeBSD on laptops will be highly
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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I'm running FreeBSD 7-STABLE/i386 on Dell Vostro 1310 laptop.
So:
 * Core2Duo CPU is well supported. powerd is able to adjust clock speed according to current system needs; hardware temperature monitoring (via coretemp(4) ) works pretty good.
 * ACPI works OK, though sometimes EC starts to behave strangely. It stops responding to battery _BST calls, so I have to descrease debug.acpi.ec.timeout in order to work comfortly... Vostro 1310 also has EXTREMELY buggy ACPI AML (200+ errors when trying to simply recompile ASL).
 * My GeForce 8400M GS is well supported by proprietary NVIDIA driver. Features like Tvin-View work nice, also driver adjusts GPU speed according to system needs. Hardware accelleration works well.
 * Audio subsystem works nice with recent snd_hda update, including microphone (Skype runs OK).
 * My O2Micro card reader is recognized by recent sdhci driver update, but it handles not all cards I have, and this code is neither in -CURRENT nor in -STABLE yet.  

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Ilya Bakulin <[email protected]>

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