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Date:      Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:34:43 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Par Leijonhufvud <par@hunter-gatherer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell Inspiron 1150
Message-ID:  <20050316000443.GD20599@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050315162634.GJ11418@absaroka.eryn-lasgalen.org>
References:  <20050315162634.GJ11418@absaroka.eryn-lasgalen.org>

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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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