ACPI problems with Dell laptops

[Graham North]

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
>
>
>
>

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Graham North
Vancouver, BC
www.soleado.ca


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