Re: Dell Inspiron 1150

On Tuesday, 15 March 2005 at 17:26:34 +0100, Par Leijonhufvud wrote:
> I'm considering an Dell Inspiron 1150, but I don't find much in the
> archives. Did it work? "Out of the box" or did you have to play around
> to make it work?

I bought one about two months ago and installed FreeBSD on it with
almost no trouble.  About the only issue was the touch pad.  The
following patch got it to work:

--- /boot/device.hints  2004/11/05 01:27:17     1.1
+++ /boot/device.hints  2005/01/19 17:36:23
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 hint.atkbd.0.irq="1"
 hint.psm.0.at="atkbdc"
 hint.psm.0.irq="12"
+# Needed on Inspiron 1150
+hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000"
 hint.vga.0.at="isa"
 hint.sc.0.at="isa"
 hint.sc.0.flags="0x100"

See my diary entries starting at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jan2005.html#19 for more details.

Greg
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