Laptop suggestions please

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi Espen, hi Christopher,

> >>Anyone know of a laptop that FreeBSD supports well
> >>enough to use all of its capabilities?
> >>
> 
> Stay away from all modern Acer laptops. They use "Smart batteries" which 
> is not supported in FreeBSD yet. That means you'll be unable to retrieve 
> battery information. It's on the ACPI todo list, but it's not 
> implemented yet, not even on CURRENT.

I bought an Acer Extensa 4100 and I could get the battery state
immediately due to standard DSDT (see this thread).  Brunot Ducrot
fixed this for me, but it still need to use the following lines in
loader.conf(5) :
%%%
    acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
    acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/DSDT.aml"
%%%

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Jeremie Le Hen
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