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

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Barton <DougB at FreeBSD.org> writes:

Doug> Thanks for your very helpful response... pardon a few questions.
Doug> 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, ...).

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

Battery monitor works.  AFAIK, -current is req'd for full ACPI
support.

>> The Bluetooth chip is not detected, though.

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

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

Oh... bluetooth is detected ... it shows up as a USB device ... but
the specific chip doesn't have a bluetooth driver ... it shows up as a
ugen0.

Dave.

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