Story of a Desktop User

[Adrian Chadd]

[snip]

Hi!

Can you post the PCI ID information for the ethernet NIC?


-adrian


On 14 November 2013 13:59, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> [ Meta: I will ask that people please change the subject line if they
> want to branch about discussing a particular issue or problem.  This
> is a general post and I'm hoping it will generate a lot of discussion
> about the broader issues as well as specific problems I encountered. ]
>
> Hi all,
>
> This is a Lenovo Y580 laptop with uname -a:
>
> FreeBSD gravity.local 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #5 r257754:
> Thu Nov  7 12:12:51 EST 2013
> root at gravity.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EADLER  amd64
>
> I've been using FreeBSD on this computer since February 1st, 2013.
> During this time I've tried to keep notes to myself about what works
> and what doesn't.  I wrote a similar email on February 3rd, 2013 to
> mobile at .  This one should be more complete since I have been running
> &os; longer. :)  I am running "make buildworld" and will try a more
> recent HEAD shortly.
>
> At the moment the trackpad seems to be losing all "click" events.
> That is, I can move the mouse pointer around, however X does not
> register any mouse click.  I'm not sure what caused this.
>
>
> if_rue works.  if_run works.  Unfortunately I no longer have either of
> these cards.
>
> This laptop comes with a small SSD (16GB) and a large (1TB) HDD.  I
> have the operating system installed to the SSD and my homedir and most
> other data on the HDD.  Both seem to fuction as expected.  I use ZFS
> for all my filesystems including root.  However I frequently noticed
> absurdly slow access time to disk.  It can take minutes to run ls -l
> on an empty directory.  I do not know if this is the fault of the
> disk, the filesystem, or some decision I made when partitioning the
> disk.
>
> I needed to setup xbindkeys to make the volume and mute work.  They
> are now mapped to "mixer vol".  These keys therefore only work when X
> is running.  It would be great if we had a tool "keypressd" which
> would allow keypresses to be mapped to run arbitrary userland programs
> from both the console as well as X.
>
> The play/stop/rewind/next keys are mapped via xbindkeys to pianobar.
> As above, it would be great to have this mapping work in the console.
>
> VT Switching is a well known problem that newcons is aiming to solve.
> However, I'll mention it here for completeness: I can not switch to
> the console once X has been started (using the new Xorg w/ Intel
> drivers).
>
> Related to X: I am running WITH_NEW_XORG.  This laptop has nvidia
> optimus.  However, it is not possible to use the nvidia card so I am
> stuck with Intel only at the moment.
>
> The sleep key and wireless on/off key do nothing. It would be great to
> trap them and do something.
>
> I am able to use webcamd with pwcview to test my camera.  It seems
> like it just works.  However webcamd can not be started from rc.conf
> last I tested.  It must be started manually.
>
> The hardware switches from speakers to headphones automagically when I
> plug in headphones.  I like this behavior but it would be great if
> there were a sysctl to disable it.
>
> suspend/resume does not function from X.  I did not test from console.
>  I have tried to remove the VESA module but this did not help.
> hw.acpi.reset_video=1 also does not help.
>
> The brightness keys on up and down change the ACPI brightness value.
> However I see no impact on the screen itself.
> It would be great to have some method of streaming ACPI events in
> userland (i.e., 'xev' for ACPI).  This would make it easier to debug
> what is actually going on here.
>
> The "Enable/Disable" screen key works as expected.  The "switch
> screen" key requires xbindkeys support.
>
> At the moment I am unable to get my USB mouse to be recognized at all.
>  The driver has trouble attaching.  It was working during -BETA3 so it
> seems there is some regression here.
>
> Adrian and Cedric have been working on if_iwn support.  There is
> already extensive discussion about this on -wireless.
>
> On to the worse side of things:
> /dev/speaker just does not function at all.
> if_alc does not function on this laptop.
>
> the boot method must be set to "legacy" in BIOS in order to boot.
>
>
> Slightly less specific to FreeBSD:
> - hexchat and xchat spell check is not functioning despite (a) the
> option being selected and (b) the dictionary being installed.
> - chrome can not open PDFs inline like it can on other platforms.  I
> believe this is a chrome limitation
> - the lxpanel battery monitor is non-functional on FreeBSD.  I believe
> it used to work but a recent update killed it.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Eitan Adler
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