Experience with Dell Latitude D[568]00's?

Doug Barton DougB at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 1 18:49:15 PST 2003


Thanks for your very helpful response... pardon a few questions.

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Stefan Eßer wrote:

> On 2003-12-01 16:09 -0800, Doug Barton <DougB at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Just when I thought the laptop issue was resolved, I've got some new
> > drama. :)  I am moving to a new job, and they use Dell Latitude's there,
> > so I need to find out if anyone has experience with either the Latitude
> > D500, D600, or D800. I'm particularly interested in ACPI support in
> > -current, and things like suspend, resume, etc. I'm also interested in
>
> I have not got suspend/resume to work on my D800 (but perhaps have
> just not tried enough). Everything else works just fine (X11, sound,
> LAN, ...).

Have you tried other ACPI features, like the battery monitor for
example? Also, are you running -current?

> The Bluetooth chip is not detected, though.

Hrrmm... that's not good news. Do you have the bluetooth code in your
kernel? (sorry for the silly question)

Thanks for your thorough analysis of the 800 vs. 600, very helpful!

Doug

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