Problems with FreeBSD installation

[Ben Fallon]

What model of laptop is it?  I just subscribed to the list yesterday and may have missed the beginning of this thread.
You can also check here http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/
It provides details for a bunch of laptops and what the findings were for the models they tested.
On Linux, a simple dmesg will help on seeing what devices were found by your os otherwise, like BSD,
the lspci also works the same.  Sorry I can't help more without a bit more information.

-----Original Message-----
From: luis.henrix at gmail.com [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Miguel
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 4:26 AM
To: Mel Flynn
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD installation

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Mel
Flynn<mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net> wrote:
> Your best bet is to poll the mobile list (CC'd) to see if anyone was 
> able to get FreeBSD working on this laptop (or even to know whether 
> this is a lost cause till somebody makes some patches for this 
> laptop). Since 7.2 also does not work and with 8.0-RELEASE being in 
> it's final stages, it's unlikely you can get some priority from the 
> developers for it being a regression bug. The acpi and missing disk 
> can be related (most likely are), but unless you get at least a live 
> FS working (even the USB image for 8.0-BETA2) it will be hard to get 
> an acpidump(8). So this really depends on "someone knowledgeable 
> having this laptop" or BIOS tricks that get you to a stage where more info can be gathered and saved/snapshot.

Ok, I understand chances to have it running in the short term are not high :-) Anyway, and since I am replying to the mobile list, I am available to provide more information about the laptop. I have Linux running on it and I believe there is something similar to the acpidump (not sure if its the same tool as in FreeBSD or if their outputs are compatible) that I could use to provide some more details.

Regards,
Miguel
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