After a lot of bad luck with ACPI and my new Inspiron 5150, something good happened today. I went to Dell's site, and they had a BIOS update for my machine that took it to rev A23. This was actually an update from PhoenixBIOS to DellBIOS. Once I got that installed, I went to Stijn Hoop's Dell page at:
http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php And followed his steps to add the Dell fixes. Note, the last chunk of the dell-dsl.patch fails to apply, but that seems to be okay. Once I reboot with the patch, ACPI seems much happier. I am able to get correct battery status, the screen dims when I pull the AC, and sleep state S1 seems to work. Note, S3 causes the laptop to reload, but I think this may have to do with Firewire (but I'm not sure). If anyone's interested, I can provide a stack trace. Something else to note, that after this BIOS update, USB 2 seems to work now. That is, I can add a USB 2.0 jump disk, and it recognizes it, and allows me to mount it. Moral of the story: if you have a Dell Inspiron 5150 (and maybe 5100), getting on the latest BIOS is a good thing. Joe PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
