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Subject: Re: Help with Dell Precision M4800 (laptop)?
From: David Wolfskill <david () catwhisker ! org>
Date: 2015-03-19 2:42:38
Message-ID: 20150319024238.GC1215 () albert ! catwhisker ! org
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:34:19PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> [Replacing Dell Precision M4400 with M4800...]
An update:
> Here's the current status:
> + FreeBSD (both stable/10 & head) boots (desite an occasional "invalid
> partition table!" BIOS message at boot).
A complete rebuild of FreeBSD stable/10 @279586 took about 26 minutes.
> - Despite updating to the recent x11/nvidia-driver port, I have been
> unable (so far) to get X running. (It whines about an inability to
> find any screens.)
>
> - Attempts to suspend (to RAM) have uniformly failed so far. I have
> thus not attempted to resume.
Changing the BIOS "Switchable Video" option from the default "on" to
"off" appears to have resolved both of the above.
> ...
> I've placed a handful of files under
> <http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/m4800/>:
> ...
> I'll try grabbing a dmesg.boot and adding that in when I get a chance
> (probably tonight).
It's a stable/10 non-verbose dmesg.boot, but it's there.
Peace,
david
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