Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:13:05 +0200 From: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org> To: Espen Tagestad <espen@modula.no> Cc: C O <christophermobrien3@yahoo.com>, Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop suggestions please Message-ID: <20050602091305.GP32472@poupinou.org> In-Reply-To: <429EC08B.8030409@modula.no> References: <20050602044847.24791.qmail@web60413.mail.yahoo.com> <1117696191.429eb0bf7aab8@www.domainfactory-webmail.de> <429EC08B.8030409@modula.no>
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Espen Tagestad wrote: > Markus Hoenicka wrote: > >C O <christophermobrien3@yahoo.com> was heard to say: > > > > > >>Anyone know of a laptop that FreeBSD supports well > >>enough to use all of its capabilities? > >> > >this might help you to get started: > > > >http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ > > Stay away from all modern Acer laptops. They use "Smart batteries" which > is not supported in FreeBSD yet. That means you'll be unable to retrieve > battery information. It's on the ACPI todo list, but it's not > implemented yet, not even on CURRENT. For those laptops, someone provide patches to the DSDT which happens to be a generic workaround for OS that do not support yet the acpi smbus interface to the EC (and therefore the smart batteries behind this smbus). See http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbs-linux for more information. (don't be afraid by the name of this link ;) Cheers, -- Bruno Ducrot -- Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? -- Don't know. Don't care.
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