Re: All your laptops are belong to Windows.

From: Astrodog (astrodog_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/15/05

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    Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:31:41 -0800
To: Davide Lemma <davide@sito.it>

    On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:40:51 +0100, Davide Lemma <davide@sito.it> wrote:
    > I'm in a situation similar to you... I've just purchased a Medion SIM2000,
    > it boots up but I've also some troubles with sound & modem.
    > Here the strange problem is that the sound card is a AC97 ALS (SiS7012) and
    > it just outputs from headphone and the modem is a SiS7013 (Intel Winmodem)
    > that isn't in the ports tree (while there is the LT winmodem).
    > For the Video Card with some trick I was able to get a full 16:9 resolution
    > like in windows but without DRI (this is an Xorg problem).
    > Above all I'm almost surprised because I know the difficulty to work with a
    > laptop & unix.
    > I've tried Fedora Core 3 & Debian III but it gives me an error during boot
    > (acpi error).
    > So like a BSD users I feel above all lucky enough.
    > The only suggestion I feel to give you is to wait the awake of 6.0 because
    > it will have many changes in ACPI calls. I'm waiting too to have some tricks
    > about my sound card :)
    >
    > bye Davide
    >
    > ----- Original Message -----
    > From: "bsdnooby" <bsdnooby@optonline.net>
    > To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
    > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 8:32 AM
    > Subject: All your laptops are belong to Windows.
    >
    > >
    > > I'm defeated. The FreeBSD install gives no hints as to why it turns off
    > > my laptop.
    > >
    > > When I try to install FreeBSD, my brand new I'm blue.HP Pavilion laptop
    > > turns itself off. It does not matter if I use 4.x or 5.x, CD or floppies.
    > > There is no error log since it just shuts off after I choose to load a
    > > kernel. I have tried loading with ACPI off, and it does not help. I
    > > believe I tried all the kernel options available from the menu on 5.x.
    > >
    > > The computer is a HP Pavilion zv5445us, with 512MB RAM, P4-3Ghz, 100GB HD,
    > > 15.4" Hi-Def Screen, 54G 802.11b WLAN. I purchased it from Best Buy.
    > >
    > > Under Windows, it appears Hyper-Threading is turned on, and I have not
    > > found a way to turn it off inside the CMOS.
    > >
    > > The machine runs Windows XP Pro fine, but I am trying to switch to FreeBSD
    > > on all my boxen. I was really surprised to find this one abruptly
    > > shutdown when trying to do the install. It turns off before the install
    > > really starts, so I do not have much information to solve this problem.
    > > The HD is never touched.
    > >
    > > I'm blue.
    > >
    > >
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    If you have an HP or Compaq laptop, and you see this problem TRY the
    R3000Z patches.
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