Re: Dell i7500 & Suspend to Disk
Timothy Luoma <[email protected]>
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| Organization | http://tntluoma.com |
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On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:27:48 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 September 2003 at 17:13:00 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote: >> >>> AFAIK, 4.x only supports APM. 5.x supports ACPI and APM. Recent Dell >>> laptops that I've seen have ACPI-only BIOS's. >> >> My i7500 is 3 years old. I've seen a couple reports online that it does >> work so here's hoping. > > Let me know if you get it working. I wasn't very successful. I was getting my hope from <URL: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=41> XFree86: 1200x1024 APM: Fully working ACPI: Partially working PC-Card: Fully working Cardbus: Fully working But now I see that was for 5.0 (cardbus should have been the giveaway there) There is also some information about it at <URL: http://www.afn.org/~afn01750/inspiron.html> which I confess is a bit more than I fully understand at this point. Joshua Malone also mentioned that it worked for him http://www.ubergeeks.com/~jmalone/freebsdlaptops.html Perhaps I'll ask him more about it. Will post if I find out anything (unless this machine is too old for anyone else to care about?) TjL -- Running 4.8-RELEASE on a Dell Inspiron 7500 Laptop Dual Boot Windows XP using GAG Now in progress: 30 Days to becoming an Opera7 Lover http://tntluoma.com/opera/lover/7/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"