The Old Way Was Better

[Rahul Siddharthan]

Paul Robinson said on Sep  8, 2003 at 11:44:43:
> Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> 
> >For around 4 months now I've been mainly using Debian because I couldn't
> >get FreeBSD to work on my new laptop.  
> >
> 
> What was the issue, just out of curiosity?

With ACPI disabled it wouldn't boot at all, it would freeze very early
in the booting process; while with ACPI enabled, it would not detect my
touchpad (psm0).  Apparently this issue has cropped up with various
hardware over the years.  I reported it on -current and -mobile.
Haven't tried it recently.  Also didn't try -stable because the laptop
is rather crippled without ACPI (no APM bios, etc) and it works fine
with Debian.  I guess with the recent ACPI import into -stable it's time
to try it again, there are also patches for DF.