From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 19:03:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07FA516A4CE for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from morpheus.webteckies.org (node123e0.a2000.nl [24.132.35.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D26B243FCB for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2003 19:03:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-current@webteckies.org) Received: from sarevok.idg.nl (unknown [192.168.1.12]) by morpheus.webteckies.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F00107C6 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 03:59:56 +0100 (CET) From: Melvyn Sopacua Organization: WebTeckies.org To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 04:03:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311240403.05040.freebsd-current@webteckies.org> Subject: Results: Dell Inspiron 8600 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 03:03:08 -0000 Hi, got a new Dell Inspiron 8600 today and here is the run-down for people looking to buy one: * 5.1-RELEASE does not have the bfe ethernet driver. -CURRENT does, which leaves you with 3 options: * have a wireless connection available, cause the firewire nic is recognized * use a bootcd from a more recent version * install 5.1-RELEASE and use the cd drive to copy over /usr/src from another machine * CURRENT also fixes a bug in acpi which you may see in 5.1-RELEASE, recognizable by the "Attempt to allocate zero bytes" message in ut_allocate * If you're going to run X, you're looking for this, in the 'Monitor' section: HorizSync 30-120 Option "IgnoreEDID" "true" # not sure this affects anything VertRefresh 40 # wxga format display (one line) Modeline "1280x800" 108.00 1280 1376 1488 1800 800 801 804 1500 +hsync +vsync Open issues: * no /dev/apmctl: Nov 24 01:25:37 sarevok root: /etc/rc: WARNING: /dev/apmctl not found; kernel is missing apm(4) $ ls -al /dev/apm* crw-rw-r-- 1 root operator 39, 0 Nov 24 01:25 /dev/apm $ grep apmctl /sys/conf/NOTES /sys/i386/conf/LINT | wc -l 0 As a result apmd does not start * APM Capabilities reports 'unknown' * nv driver from XFree86-4-Server makes screen unusable after exit. Messages on the XFree86-4 list suggest that driver does a better job, so I'm gonna try it. Small issue: Running mplayer to play a DVD still has a lot of 'black' stripes on top and bottom. In theory, it should not be more than 40 pixels each (1280x720 == 16:9 vs. 1280x800 screen res), but it's way more than that. All in all: a good result. -- Melvyn ======================================================= FreeBSD sarevok.idg.nl 5.2-BETA FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #2: Sun Nov 23 15:02:26 CET 2003 root@sarevok.idg.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK i386 =======================================================