From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Sep 12 7:56:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pebkac.owp.csus.edu (pebkac.owp.csus.edu [130.86.232.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 385F537B423 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:56:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owp.csus.edu ([130.86.77.19]) by pebkac.owp.csus.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA64330; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:56:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu) Message-ID: <39BE4321.AFB5D9DD@owp.csus.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 07:52:17 -0700 From: Joseph Scott X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Finch Cc: Jamie Bowden , Joao Pedras , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dell laptops References: <20000912081536.E6767@hand.dotat.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Tony Finch wrote: > > Jamie Bowden wrote: > > > >I've got a Latitude CPx that works just fine with 4.x. My old CPi worked > >just fine under 3.x and 4.x. I didn't get a Dell NIC/Modem card. I > >bought a Zoom PCMCIA modem (non winmodem, works like a champ) and Intel > >Pro/100 PCCARD (uses xircom chip xe0 driver). I like my Dells. > > I have a Latitude CPx. In addition to what others have said (sound not > supported (ESS won't release details on the Maestro 3), no cardbus so > the bundled ethernet card isn't supported), I have a problem with the > APM BIOS locking the machine *HARD* if you try to suspend while in X. > Suspending when at the text console works fine. What version of XFree86 are you using? When I was using version 4 I saw the same thing, the system would lock up when suspending from X. I updated XFree86 to 4.0.1 and I no longer see that problem. Suspend works from X or text console. -- Joseph Scott joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu The Office Of Water Programs - CSU Sacramento To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message