Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:47:28 -0800 From: Graham North <northg@shaw.ca> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org>, acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops Message-ID: <43893A60.4000200@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <43891936.7090904@centtech.com> References: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> <20051123195120.GE908@eucla.lemis.com> <43891936.7090904@centtech.com>
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--=======AVGMAIL-43893A602015======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Eric, Groggy and all who replied to this my initial enquiry: Thank you for the tips. I tend to favour the Dells also, but the the ACPI does sound like a concern. Will watch this space. Thanks again to all. Cheers, Graham/ Eric Anderson wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 22 November 2005 at 17:12:46 -0800, Graham North wrote: >> >>> Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck >>> winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. >>> >>> Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless >>> or >>> IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. >>> The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...? >>> Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices? >>> Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0? >> >> >> >> I've had both Dell and ThinkPad (no longer IBM). I prefer Dell, >> despite their attempts to convince me otherwise. >> >> However, we currently seem to have significant ACPI problems with Dell >> laptops. I'm writing this on an Inspiron 6000 running 7-CURRENT, but >> the same problems occur with 6.0: if I enable ACPI, timing goes to >> hell, and some things just time out. There was a similar message a >> couple of days ago from an owner of (I think) the latest Latitude >> machine, which sounded even worse. My requests for feedback about how >> to solve the problem have so far not been resolved. If you're >> otherwise tending towards Dell, I'd suggest you watch this space until >> there's some indication that the problems will be resolved. >> >> Nothing of this says that ThinkPads will do better, of course. I >> don't know what the situation is there. > > > Which scheduler are you using? Also, have you tried disabling apic? > I had these same troubles, and worked around them, but I can't recall > the exact trick - I seem to recall disabling apic and/or using 4BSD > scheduler. > > Eric > > > > -- Kindness can be infectious - try it. Graham North Vancouver, BC www.soleado.ca --=======AVGMAIL-43893A602015======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg=cert; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: "AVG certification" No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.8/183 - Release Date: 11/25/2005 --=======AVGMAIL-43893A602015=======--
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