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- - FreeBSD on Laptops - - - FreeBSD works fine on most laptops, with a few caveats. - Some issues specific to running FreeBSD on laptops, relating - to different hardware requirements from desktops, are - discussed below. - - - - &tm-attrib.freebsd; - &tm-attrib.linux; - &tm-attrib.microsoft; - &tm-attrib.general; - - - $FreeBSD$ - - $FreeBSD$ - - - FreeBSD is often thought of as a server operating system, but - it works just fine on the desktop, and if you want to use it on - your laptop you can enjoy all the usual benefits: systematic - layout, easy administration and upgrading, the ports/packages - system for adding software, and so on. (Its other benefits, such - as stability, network performance, and performance under a heavy - load, may not be obvious on a laptop, of course.) However, - installing it on laptops often involves problems which are not - encountered on desktop machines and are not commonly discussed - (laptops, even more than desktops, are fine-tuned for - µsoft.windows;). This article aims to discuss some of these - issues. Several people have also documented their experiences - with &os; on specific laptop models on webpages which are not part - of the &os; documentation. You might very well find some - information if you type the name of your laptop model and the word - &os; into a search engine of your choice. - Additionally there is a &os;-specific online database which aims - to give information on hardware issues with laptops, The &os; Laptop - Compatibility List. - - If you want to communicate with other &os; laptop users, check - out the &a.mobile.name; list. You can also get additional - information about using Laptops on &os; at http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_bsd.html. - - - &xorg; - - Recent versions of &xorg; work - with most display adapters available on laptops these days. - Acceleration may not be supported, but a generic SVGA - configuration should work. - - Check your laptop documentation for which card you have, and - check in the &xorg; documentation to - see whether it is specifically supported. If it is not, use a - generic device (do not go for a name which just looks similar). - You can try your luck with the command Xorg - -configure which auto-detects a lot of - configurations. - - The problem often is configuring the monitor. Common - resources for &xorg; focus on CRT - monitors; getting a suitable modeline for an LCD display may be - tricky. You may be lucky and not need to specify a modeline, or - just need to specify suitable HorizSync and - VertRefresh ranges. If that does not work, - the best option is to check web resources devoted to configuring - X on laptops (these are often Linux oriented sites but it does - not matter because both systems use - &xorg;) and copy a modeline posted by - someone for similar hardware. - - Most laptops come with two buttons on their pointing - devices, which is rather problematic in X (since the middle - button is commonly used to paste text); you can map a - simultaneous left-right click in your X configuration to a - middle button click with the line Option - "Emulate3Buttons" in xorg.conf - in the InputDevice section. - - - - Modems - - Laptops usually come with internal (on-board) modems. - Unfortunately, this almost always means they are - winmodems whose functionality is implemented in - software, for which only &windows; drivers are normally - available (though a few drivers are beginning to show up for - other operating systems; for example, if your modem has a Lucent - LT chipset it might be supported by the - comms/ltmdm port). If that is the case, you - need to buy an external modem: the most compact option is - probably a PC Card (PCMCIA) modem, discussed below, but serial - or USB modems may be cheaper. Generally, regular modems - (non-winmodems) should work fine. - - - - - PCMCIA (PC Card) Devices - - Most laptops come with PCMCIA (also called PC Card) slots; - these are supported fine under FreeBSD. Look through your - boot-up messages (using &man.dmesg.8;) and see whether these - were detected correctly (they should appear as - pccard0, pccard1 etc - on devices like pcic0). - - &os; 4.X supports 16-bit PCMCIA cards, and - &os; 5.X supports both 16-bit and 32-bit - (CardBus) cards. A database of supported cards - is in the file /etc/defaults/pccard.conf. - Look through it, and preferably buy cards listed there. Cards - not listed may also work as generic devices: in - particular most modems (16-bit) should work fine, provided they - are not winmodems (these do exist even as PC Cards, so watch - out). If your card is recognised as a generic modem, note that - the default pccard.conf specifies a delay - time of 10 seconds (to avoid freezes on certain modems); this - may well be over-cautious for your modem, so you may want to - play with it, reducing it or removing it totally. - - Some parts of pccard.conf may need - editing. Check the irq line, and be sure to remove any number - already being used: in particular, if you have an on board sound - card, remove irq 5 (otherwise you may experience hangs when you - insert a card). Check also the available memory slots; if your - card is not being detected, try changing it to one of the other - allowed values (listed in the manual page - &man.pccardc.8;). - - If it is not running already, start the &man.pccardd.8; - daemon. (To enable it at boot time, add - pccard_enable="YES" to - /etc/rc.conf.) Now your cards should be - detected when you insert and remove them, and you should get - log messages about new devices being enabled. - - There have been major changes to the pccard code (including - ISA routing of interrupts, for machines where &os; is not able - to use the PCI BIOS) before the &os; 4.4 release. If you - have problems, try upgrading your system. - - - - - - Power Management - - Unfortunately, this is not very reliably supported under - FreeBSD. If you are lucky, some functions may work reliably; - or they may not work at all. - - To make things a little more complex, there are two existing - standards for power management: APM and ACPI, the latter - superseding the former and including more features, but also - introducing more problems. - - Some laptops support both APM and ACPI (to a certain - degree), others just support one of them, so chances are that - you have to experiment with both of them to have reliable power - management on your laptop. - - - You cannot have APM and ACPI enabled at the same time, - even if your laptop has support for both of them. - - - - APM - - The APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS provides support - for various power management features like standby, suspend, - hibernation, CPU clock slow down etc. and is available - under &os; 4.X and &os; 5.X. - - To enable APM support, you can compile a kernel with power - management support (device apm0 on - &os; 4.X and device apm on - &os; 5.X). A kernel module for APM is available under - &os; 5.X, to simply load the APM kernel module at boot - add the line apm_load="YES" to - /boot/loader.conf. - - On &os; 5.X, you also have to set - hint.apm.0.disabled="0" in - /boot/device.hints. - - You can start APM at boot time by having - apm_enable="YES" in - /etc/rc.conf. You may also want start - the &man.apmd.8; daemon by adding - apmd_enable="YES" to - /etc/rc.conf, which takes care of various - APM events that are posted to the BIOS, so you can have your - laptop suspend/resume by pressing some function key on the - keyboard or by closing/opening the lid. - - The APM commands are listed in the &man.apm.8; manual - page. For instance, apm -b gives you - battery status (or 255 if not supported), apm - -Z puts the laptop on standby, apm - -z (or zzz) suspends it. To - shutdown and power off the machine, use shutdown - -p. Again, some or all of these functions may not - work very well or at all. - - You may find that laptop suspension/standby works in - console mode but not under X (that is, the screen does not - come on again); if you are running &os; 5.X, one solution - for this might be to put options - SC_NO_SUSPEND_VTYSWITCH in your kernel - configuration file and recompile your kernel. Another - workaround is to switch to a virtual console (using CtrlAltF1 - or another function key) and then execute &man.apm.8;. You - can automate this with &man.vidcontrol.1;, if you are running - &man.apmd.8;. Simply edit /etc/apmd.conf - and change it to this: - - apm_event SUSPENDREQ { - exec "vidcontrol -s 1 < /dev/console"; - exec "/etc/rc.suspend"; -} - -apm_event USERSUSPENDREQ { - exec "vidcontrol -s 1 < /dev/console"; - exec "sync && sync && sync"; - exec "sleep 1"; - exec "apm -z"; -} - -apm_event NORMRESUME, STANDBYRESUME { - exec "/etc/rc.resume"; - exec "vidcontrol -s 9 < /dev/console"; -} - - - - ACPI - - ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Management - Interface) provides not only power management but also - platform hardware discovery (superseding PnP and PCI BIOS). - ACPI is only available under &os; 5.X and is enabled by - default, so you do not have to do anything special to get it - running. You can control ACPI behaviour with - &man.acpiconf.8;. - - Unfortunately, vendors often ship their laptops with - broken ACPI implementations, thus having ACPI enabled - sometimes causes more problems than being useful, up to the - point that you cannot even boot &os; on some machines with - ACPI enabled. - - If ACPI is causing problems, you might check if your - laptop vendor has released a new BIOS version that fixes some - bugs. Since the &os; ACPI implementation is still very - evolving code, you might also want to upgrade your system; - chances are that your problems are fixed. - - If you want to disable ACPI simply add - hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to - /boot/device.hints. You can disable ACPI - temporarily at the boot loader prompt by issuing - unset acpi_load if you are having problems - booting an ACPI enabled machine. &os; 5.1-RELEASE and - later come with a boot-time menu that controls how &os; is - booted. One of the proposed options is to turn off ACPI. So - to disable ACPI just select 2. Boot &os; with - ACPI disabled in the menu. - - - - Display Power Management - - The X window system (&xorg;) - also includes display power management (look at the - &man.xset.1; manual page, and search for dpms - there). You may want to investigate this. However, this, - too, works inconsistently on laptops: it often turns off the - display but does not turn off the backlight. - - -
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