5.x concerns

[Freddie Cash]

On February 7, 2005 03:40 pm, Tórgan Flores de Siqueira wrote:
> Just adding a note: I regularly use FreeBSD on a Toshiba notebook,
> and switched from 4.x to 5.x to benefit from cardbus support.
> Well, I started with 5.2.1 and all things did well. Since then, I'm
> trying to track 5-STABLE with no success. Starting with 5.3-RELEASE,
> the ACPI stopped to work, as well as did the rl driver.
> So, I switched back to 5.2.1.

What model Toshiba laptop are you using?

I'm curious as I have a Toshiba Satellite A60 that works quite nicely 
with FreeBSD 5.2.1, 5.3, and 6-CURRENT (with the exception of the 
WinModem and soundcard not working, and the ATA controllers only being 
recognised as UDMA33).  The NIC works, the wireless NIC works, the CPU 
throttling works, the video card works perfectly in 2D and provides 
software 3D support (there's no AGP module for the ATI Radeon 7000 IGP 
chipset).  Even the USB 2.0 ports work.

5.2-CURRENT had working sleep/resume support, but then it disappeared 
one day, and I was never able to track down if it was a BIOS update, 
ACPI update, or driver update that killed it.  Not that it bothers me, 
I prefer to power it off completely anyway.

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