Acer Travelmate 8371 bricked by installing FreeBSD?

[Markus Hoenicka]

Mubeesh ali <mubeeshalivm at gmail.com> was heard to say:

> Hi,
>
> very useful info. I now know what exactly happened with an acer  5745
> on which  i gave up . would be nice to  add these details in bsd
> laptop compatibility  list
>
> http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/
>

Hi,

this is already on my todo list. I'll add an entry as soon as I have  
worked out the kinks. I had to build a custom kernel yesterday in  
order to get access to wifi and sound. I still don't see Bluetooth,  
the card reader, and the webcam, but I have never had any need for one  
of these. Although I removed from the config everything that seemed  
unnecessary to me, installing the new kernel almost completely filled  
the / partition (107%!). The kernel works ok though, so I'm almost  
set. I'll just have to redo the installation and increase the size of  
/. It's a bit strange because I used here whatever the installer  
suggested (I only increased /tmp as I had run out of space here on  
another box), so even if your HDD is 500 GB, the default is way too  
small. Would that qualify as a bug report?

In any case, I'll make sure to have the kernel config,  
/boot/loader.conf, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/X11/xorg.conf (unless Xorg  
works automagically) handy before publishing the entry in the laptop  
compatibility list. With a bit of luck I'll be done this weekend.

regards,
Markus



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