Hello. I recently bought an Acer 5552-7858 notebook. While shopping I checked that OpenBSD had drivers for all the devices, and my dmesg has no "not configured" messages. The video, webcam, and audio are working well. This is a low price AMD quad core, well loaded with 6GB of memory and 640GB of storage, 15.4 inch monitor, full size keyboard, and after 2 weeks I recommend it.
I have a few issues that I would like help with. I installed VLC, and my webcam works, but my microphone does not seem to be detected at all. dmesg does not list a usb audio device. What should I do to investigate this? Is there a better application, other than VLC, for using a webcam with OpenBSD? Second, I configured KDE to use a blank screen saver, which works, but the monitor never turns off. How can I configure my notebook monitor to turn off after 15 minutes of being inactive? Third, my touchpad is slow... the cursor move slowly. I tried to configure it with KDE to behave faster, but KDE isn't making it behave the way I am used to with Linux. Are there any suggestions for this? I don't seem to be using the Synaptics driver. The touchpad otherwise works... scrolling works, and a double finger tap simulates the (missing) middle button. I am also curious about how SMP behaves. According to top(1), an application may be using 50% cpu, while all the cpu's are 85% idle. Does OpenBSD somehow divide the load over the cpu's, or is top(1) not displaying things properly? And lastly, is there something equivalent to the GNU free(1) command? Thank you Robert
