Susceptibility of Dell 8200 to thermal stress/fatigue?

[Joseph Olatt]

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:05:43PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
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> 
> Now, it looks as if the Dell Latitude C840 is fairly similar to the
> Inspiron 8200.  As far as running FreEBSD on the machine, are there any
> salient differences?
> 
> And does anyone have any ideas as to how susceptible either is to
> thermal stress?
> 

I've been running FreeBSD (exclusively) on a Dell Inspiron 8200 for
about 1 1/2  years now. My usage is not as heavy as yours, though. 
Currently I'm running 5.3-STABLE and some of the issues that I have 
are:

1. Interrupt storm on PCI bus and irq11 - I'm yet to figure out how to
resolve this one.
2. If you are using the parallel port, you need to put the lpt0 in
polled mode as opposed to using an IRQ (again, because of interrupt 
storms). 

Overall, it runs FreeBSD quite well. I suspect the Latitudes, geared for
the corporate user, are probably more robust with proven components.

regards,
--joseph


> This comes into play because I keep a local copy of the FreeBSD CVS
> repository on my laptop, updated daily, and have been tracking RELENG_4
> as often as the corresponding working directory changed (usually,
> daily).  I had been tracking HEAD (on another slice) until RELENG_5 was
> branched, and I then tracked RELENG_5.  (I do have a slice for HEAD, but
> 2 buildworlds in a day was eating into my time a bit much; 3 just
> wouldn't be feasible.  I'll probably resume tracking HEAD once I migrate
> my production machines at home to 5.x.)
> 
> (Yes, I am aware that some folks have encountered some challenges with
> suspend/resume and with making the lid switch behave "properly."  And
> that I will probably be making the acquaintance of the NVidia driver in
> ports.)
> 
> That last reminds me of another bit of workload for the machine -- a
> daily "portupgrade -a".
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Peace,
> david
> --Peace,
> david
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