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
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From: bsdnooby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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