On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:51:20PM +0100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 22 November 2005 at 17:12:46 -0800, Graham North wrote: > > Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck > > winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. > > > > Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless > > or > > IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. > > The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bios, acpi...? > > Can someone suggest to me whether these are both safe choices? > > Am I better off installing 5.4 or 6.0? > > I've had both Dell and ThinkPad (no longer IBM). I prefer Dell, > despite their attempts to convince me otherwise. > > However, we currently seem to have significant ACPI problems with Dell > laptops. I'm writing this on an Inspiron 6000 running 7-CURRENT, but > the same problems occur with 6.0: if I enable ACPI, timing goes to > hell, and some things just time out.
Is *that* what's happening to my 6000 running CURRENT? I've noticed that under load my bfe0 interface sometimes just wanders off and needs to be re-ifconfiged to get going again. And its throughput generally sucks, but I haven't had a chance to try to run things down. If you want someone to check patches or try to reproduce problems, please let me know. -- Ted Faber http://www.isi.edu/~faber PGP: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkeys.asc Unexpected attachment on this mail? See http://www.isi.edu/~faber/FAQ.html#SIG
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