FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron

[Igor Partola]

Good time of day. Recently I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my Dell Inspiron 8600. It works great, everything except for the winmodem got detected right away. I have however a few things I'd like to tweak that I don't seem to be able to do. Namely:
 
1) My touchpad is an ALPS touchpad. When I had Linux running on this machine I had to patch the kernel so it would work with a synaptics ALPS driver (within synaptics there is a file called alps.patch). FreeBSD recognizes the touchpad as an ALPS glidepoint, but the sensetivity is terrible! I use moused and X11 uses /dev/sysmouse, so I tried to tweak with moused options. I managed to speed up the pointer but it gets really hard to point precisely. (In Windows where I can use the native driver from Apoint it is a lot smoother). Any solutions?
 
2) The ACPI partially works: S1 is supported but it'd be nice to turn off the screen with it. By the way if I disable ACPI (acpiconf -d), closing the lid turns off the screen. Is there a config file or something I could edit?
 
3) S3 sleep state reboots the computer. Has anybody gotten it working? Is there an expected fix of it?
 
I would appreciate all help.
 
Thanks and respect,
 
Igor