New install on Dell -- Need help

[Sam Leffler]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 08:22 am, W.K. Vladmir Ward wrote:
> Hello...
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on my Dell
> Inspiron 8200 last Friday and have been working to get
> things running. I know a little bit about FreeBSD from
> what I've picked out of the handbook, and from my past
> experience with Linux, but I'm still in the dark.
>
> I'm having a lot of ACPI troubles, and I'm wondering
> if anyone knows what the fix for the battery mis-read
> error is. I've disabled APM in my kernel config
> (according to some sources I've found it doesn't like
> playing nice with ACPI). Also, running GKrellM with
> tz0 enabled shows temp ranges from 125 to 160 degrees
> F... is there some way to fix this with scaling/offset
> options? I've already applied the ACPI patch to be rid
> of the error messages on boot, but I'm still working
> on those two problems listed above.

You need to be more specific about your problems.  If you're getting error 
messages to the console these would be useful.  FWIW I just installed 5.2-RC1 
on a Dell i600m and hit problems with ACPI and the battery.  I see complaints 
about zero-sized memory allocations from UtAllocate and ACPI is unable to 
manage/observe the battery operation.  Nate filed a bug for me:

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1728

I've also seen some oddities with suspend but haven't investigated.

	Sam