On February 7, 2005 03:40 pm, Tórgan Flores de Siqueira wrote:Just adding a note: I regularly use FreeBSD on a Toshiba notebook, and switched from 4.x to 5.x to benefit from cardbus support. Well, I started with 5.2.1 and all things did well. Since then, I'm trying to track 5-STABLE with no success. Starting with 5.3-RELEASE, the ACPI stopped to work, as well as did the rl driver. So, I switched back to 5.2.1.
What model Toshiba laptop are you using?
I'm curious as I have a Toshiba Satellite A60 that works quite nicely with FreeBSD 5.2.1, 5.3, and 6-CURRENT (with the exception of the WinModem and soundcard not working, and the ATA controllers only being recognised as UDMA33). The NIC works, the wireless NIC works, the CPU throttling works, the video card works perfectly in 2D and provides software 3D support (there's no AGP module for the ATI Radeon 7000 IGP chipset). Even the USB 2.0 ports work.
5.2-CURRENT had working sleep/resume support, but then it disappeared one day, and I was never able to track down if it was a BIOS update, ACPI update, or driver update that killed it. Not that it bothers me, I prefer to power it off completely anyway.
Hi,
I have a Toshiba Satellite 2060CDS (kind of old, I now). I already posted a message to this list mentioning the 2 problems I have, but here it goes: - Using 5.2.1, the system works fine. I didn't tested the winmodem, so, I can't tell if it works. - From 5.3-RELEASE onwards, I'm having problems with the rl driver: the NIC doesn't work at all, and the problem seems to be the well- known "rl0: watchdog timeout". I saw a patch some time ago in this list, but I couldn't test it yet. - Also since 5.3-RELEASE onwards, the ACPI system stopped to work. This is a more serious problem, and I haven't managed to get a usefull report, as the machine hangs at random points in the booting process. By random points, I mean in different stages of probing hardware. The only way to boot the machine is disabling ACPI.
In 5.2.1 the sleep/resume support works well, except for the NIC (a pcmcia RTL 8139). There is no way I could get the card working after a resume. The wireless card works like a charm, and so does the usb port, never get in trouble with them. The soundcard works well, too.
I updated the BIOS (from 7.50 to 7.80), but it didn't help. With 5.3+ I also tried different kernel options, enabling/disabling SMP, apic, miibus, cbb, rl, apm and acpi, as builtin and as modules, but never get it to work.
By now, I'm using 5.2.1-p13, and I'm trying to get the NIC working after a resume. I'm also working in a minor issue: the VESA_800x600 raster mode. It seems to be another problem with this model, not being able to put it in raster mode (100x37). (This model uses a S3 video card). I googled around and searched freebsd-mobile, but didn't find anything related.
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Tórgan
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