Laptop suggestions please

[Bruno Ducrot]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 10:17:15AM +0200, Espen Tagestad wrote:
> Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> >C O <christophermobrien3 at yahoo.com> was heard to say:
> >
> >
> >>Anyone know of a laptop that FreeBSD supports well
> >>enough to use all of its capabilities?
> >>
> >this might help you to get started:
> >
> >http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
> 
> Stay away from all modern Acer laptops. They use "Smart batteries" which 
> is not supported in FreeBSD yet. That means you'll be unable to retrieve 
> battery information. It's on the ACPI todo list, but it's not 
> implemented yet, not even on CURRENT.

For those laptops, someone provide patches to the DSDT which happens
to be a generic workaround for OS that do not support yet the acpi smbus
interface to the EC (and therefore the smart batteries behind this
smbus).

See
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbs-linux
for more information.

(don't be afraid by the name of this link ;)

Cheers,

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

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