is there a laptop ?

[Maciej Suszko]

"Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/09, Maciej Suszko <maciej at suszko.eu> wrote:
> > "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at twincling.org> wrote:
> >> >> > Hi all:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to
> >> >> > use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
> >> >> > members would like to recommend wherein
> >> >> >  . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
> >> >> >  . Ethernet port
> >> >> >  . and ACPI
> >> >> > work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ?
> >> >>
> >> >> I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't
> >> >> tried the suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem
> >> >> is not going to work. Everything else is working fine for me.
> >> >> --
> >> >> regards, Maciej Suszko.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > What is the wireless chipset of your machine ?
> >>
> >> On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis.
> >> Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is
> >> loaded in kernel
> >> (either via kldload or via custom kernel)
> >> Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without
> >> problems. Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works
> >> fine ... In short everything is supported on UP kernel except
> >> winmodem.
> >>
> >> There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding:
> >>
> >> acpi_dsdt_load="YES"
> >> acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi.aml"
> >>
> >> in /boot/loader.conf
> >>
> >> /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address
> >> "temperature is absurd, ignored"
> >> type of messages.
> >>
> >>
> >> 8.0 CURRENT i386.
> >
> > On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying
> > message in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose:
> > acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)
> 
> Not for me, it caused livelocks in syscons while using powerd (h)adp
> mode, making entire session useless and forcing me to reboot machine.

I didn't notice such behavior - the only I observed is that running
powerd in adaptive mode, the lowest frequency supported by CPU is ,,too
low'' - I set 500MHz as the lowest possible via sysctl... but I'll take
a closer look on that :)
-- 
regards, Maciej Suszko.