FreeBSD on laptops

[Rainer Duffner]

Ilya Bakulin wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 7-STABLE/i386 on Dell Vostro 1310 laptop.
> So:
>  * Core2Duo CPU is well supported. powerd is able to adjust clock speed according to current system needs; hardware temperature monitoring (via coretemp(4) ) works pretty good.
>  * ACPI works OK, though sometimes EC starts to behave strangely. It stops responding to battery _BST calls, so I have to descrease debug.acpi.ec.timeout in order to work comfortly... Vostro 1310 also has EXTREMELY buggy ACPI AML (200+ errors when trying to simply recompile ASL).
>  * My GeForce 8400M GS is well supported by proprietary NVIDIA driver. Features like Tvin-View work nice, also driver adjusts GPU speed according to system needs. Hardware accelleration works well.
>  * Audio subsystem works nice with recent snd_hda update, including microphone (Skype runs OK).
>  * My O2Micro card reader is recognized by recent sdhci driver update, but it handles not all cards I have, and this code is neither in -CURRENT nor in -STABLE yet.  
>
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Hey, that's good to know - thanks.
I assume, sleep/suspend2ram/suspend2disk doesn't really work - or does it?




cheers,
Rainer