Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:36:10 +1000 From: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell laptops Message-ID: <200607111936.k6BJaAaL001323@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:53:52 CST." <20060711114633.G67466@orthanc.ca>
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> > What are the current problems, if any, on current Dell laptops have > > with FreeBSD? > > Latitude D610 > > Working: bge, x.org, audio. > > Broken: apm, acpi (none of the buttons work -- not even the lid-close > button) (well, the screen brightness controls work), no acpi video dpms, > battery life sucks (just over an hour), onboard (1370?) wireless not seen > (DWL-G650 in Cardbus slot works fine), no suspend. > > Untested: dock, external video. > > --lyndon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" This should help w/ the lid button. Mark The following from Mark Diekhans <markd@kermodei.com> helped. enable acpi_video in loader.conf: /boot/loader.conf with: acpi_video_load="YES" add this to /etc/devd.conf: # lid open/close events notify 10 { match "system" "ACPI"; match "subsystem" "Lid"; action "/etc/rc.lid $notify"; }; /etc/rc.lid is: #!/bin/sh # deal with lid switch events if [ x$1 = x0x00 ]; then logger -t Lid Closed at `date` sysctl hw.acpi.video.out0.active=0 else logger -t Lid Opened at `date` sysctl hw.acpi.video.out0.active=1 fi -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@isc.org
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