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Torfinn Ingolfsen
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Joined: 26 Feb 2005
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 Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:18 am Post subject:
FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try
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I tried installing FreeBSD 6.1-release on a new laptop, it's an Acer
Aspire AS5672WLNi. Short specs: Centrino Duo T2300, 2GB RAM, ATI
Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB / 512MB Hypermemory, 15.4 inch TFT WZGA
(1280x800) Acer Crystal Bright, 120GB Hard drive, Super-Multi DVD and
built-in 1.3MP camera.
Network-wise, the machine has a Broadcom BCM5789 nic, and for wlan Intel
Pro/Wireless 3945ABG.
Basic result: installation went fine, but none of the network cards are
properly detected. It seems (from the dmesg output) like this laptop has
bios or acpi-related problems.
I even tried with a couple of PCCard nics I have, but they didn't attach
properly either.
dmesg output and output from 'pciconf -lv' attached.
I am currently trying to find out how to get the machine online. More
info will come if I make any progress.
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Torfinn Ingolfsen
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Joined: 26 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:05 pm Post subject:
Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try
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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
| Quote: | I tried installing FreeBSD 6.1-release on a new laptop, it's an Acer
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Update:
Thanks to modern sneakernet ( read: a large usb hard drive) I got the
machine updated to FreeBSD 6.1-stable. New dmesg output attached.
The machine has bios version 1.3230 (dated 05/26/06), which is newer
than the latest bios on Acer's site (v 1.3224).
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Dr. R. E. Hawkins
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Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 55
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:15 am Post subject:
Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:18:39 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
| Quote: | I tried installing FreeBSD 6.1-release on a new laptop, it's an Acer
Aspire AS5672WLNi. Short specs: Centrino Duo T2300, 2GB RAM, ATI
Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB / 512MB Hypermemory, 15.4 inch TFT WZGA
(1280x800) Acer Crystal Bright, GB Hard drive, Super-Multi DVD and
built-in 1.3MP camera.
Network-wise, the machine has a Broadcom BCM5789 nic, and for wlan Intel
Pro/Wireless 3945ABG.
Basic result: installation went fine, but none of the network cards are
properly detected. It seems (from the dmesg output) like this laptop has
bios or acpi-related problems.
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I have a 5002, and I've regretted bung it almost since day 1. The
harddrive failed almost immediately, and I have to argue with them again
to replace the keyboard.
anyway, on mine the regular network connection is an sis0, and I had to
use iconv to convert the .INF file to ascii when using ndis. I've never
really dealt with the acpi; I rarely use it on battery.
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Torfinn Ingolfsen
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:
Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try
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Dr. R. E. Hawkins wrote:
| Quote: | On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:18:39 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
I tried installing FreeBSD 6.1-release on a new laptop, it's an Acer
Aspire AS5672WLNi. Short specs: Centrino Duo T2300, 2GB RAM, ATI
Mobility Radeon X1600 256MB / 512MB Hypermemory, 15.4 inch TFT WZGA
(1280x800) Acer Crystal Bright, GB Hard drive, Super-Multi DVD and
built-in 1.3MP camera.
Network-wise, the machine has a Broadcom BCM5789 nic, and for wlan Intel
Pro/Wireless 3945ABG.
Basic result: installation went fine, but none of the network cards are
properly detected. It seems (from the dmesg output) like this laptop has
bios or acpi-related problems.
I have a 5002, and I've regretted bung it almost since day 1. The
harddrive failed almost immediately, and I have to argue with them again
to replace the keyboard.
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That's bad. This one is only two days old, it is too early to say if it
has any quality issues.
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anyway, on mine the regular network connection is an sis0, and I had to
use iconv to convert the .INF file to ascii when using ndis.
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I tried ndsisgen for both the nic (Broadcom BCM5789) and the wlan (Intel
Pro/Wireless 3945abg). ndsis on the nic failed in the same way as the
native bge driver - it fails to attach. My theory is that this is
because of acpi / dsdt problems.
ndis for the 3945abg didn't work at all, which is the same result as
others have found.
| Quote: | I've never really dealt with the acpi; I rarely use it on battery.
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I have now made an acpi dump, and even tried to compile it with iasl
again (I got 13 errors). Everything is documented in this blog entry
http://home.no.net/tingo/log2/pivot/entry.php?id=32
in case anyone wants to have a look at it.
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Torfinn Ingolfsen
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:46 pm Post subject:
Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try
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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
| Quote: | I am currently trying to find out how to get the machine online. More
info will come if I make any progress.
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Ok, with the help of the great people on the freebsd-mobile mailing
list, I found a workaround that makes the bge0 (wired) interface work,
and now the machine is online.
-you need to set the following:
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
hw.pci4.0.INTA.irq="18"
in /boot/loader.conf (or at the loader prompt)
New dmesg output attached.
Now on to install all things needed onto the machine... 
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Gunther Nikl
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Joined: 01 Mar 2005
Posts: 55
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:
Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try
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Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@start.no> wrote:
| Quote: | 15.4 inch TFT WZGA (1280x800) Acer Crystal Bright
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I wonder why most notebooks use that resultionn today...
Gunther
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Christopher Nehren
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Joined: 27 Apr 2005
Posts: 262
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:20 am Post subject:
Computer screen resolutions (was: Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try)
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On 2006-07-18, Gunther Nikl scribbled these
curious markings:
| Quote: | Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@start.no> wrote:
15.4 inch TFT WZGA (1280x800) Acer Crystal Bright
I wonder why most notebooks use that resultionn today...
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It's considered a computer display widescreen. Look it up in Wikipedia,
under the `aspect ratio (image)` article. It corresponds to the aspect
ratio of 16:1. You can obtain this by running it through dc(1):
dc -e `5k 1280 800 / p'
or alternately any other floating point-capable calculator you have
available. Note that the 5k part of the dc command is essential, as it
sets the scale for the following division; dc defaults to zero-scale
(i.e. integer) division.
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DaveG
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 10 Mar 2005
Posts: 117
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 8:40 am Post subject:
Re: Computer screen resolutions (was: Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try)
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Sometime on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:20:19 +0000, Christopher Nehren scribbled:
| Quote: | It's considered a computer display widescreen. Look it up in Wikipedia,
under the `aspect ratio (image)` article. It corresponds to the aspect
ratio of 16:1.
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Very long and thin!! :-)
ITYM 16:9
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Steve O'Hara-Smith
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Joined: 09 Mar 2005
Posts: 327
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:39 am Post subject:
Re: Computer screen resolutions (was: Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try)
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:40:29 GMT
DaveG <dave-ng@nospam.tld> wrote:
| Quote: | Sometime on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:20:19 +0000, Christopher Nehren scribbled:
It's considered a computer display widescreen. Look it up in Wikipedia,
under the `aspect ratio (image)` article. It corresponds to the aspect
ratio of 16:1.
Very long and thin!!
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It's the aspect ratio of the original Newbrain built in display (16
characters and one line).
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DaveG
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Joined: 10 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject:
Re: Computer screen resolutions (was: Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try)
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Sometime on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:39:06 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith scribbled:
| Quote: | On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:40:29 GMT
DaveG <dave-ng@nospam.tld> wrote:
Sometime on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:20:19 +0000, Christopher Nehren scribbled:
It's considered a computer display widescreen. Look it up in Wikipedia,
under the `aspect ratio (image)` article. It corresponds to the aspect
ratio of 16:1.
Very long and thin!! :-)
It's the aspect ratio of the original Newbrain built in display (16
characters and one line).
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I remember them :-)
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Dave
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but to continue to fail in good spirits.
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Steve O'Hara-Smith
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:24 pm Post subject:
Re: Computer screen resolutions (was: Re: FreeBSD on a Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - first try)
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:09:46 GMT
DaveG <dave-ng@nospam.tld> wrote:
| Quote: | Sometime on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:39:06 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith scribbled:
On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 08:40:29 GMT
DaveG <dave-ng@nospam.tld> wrote:
Sometime on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:20:19 +0000, Christopher Nehren scribbled:
It's considered a computer display widescreen. Look it up in Wikipedia,
under the `aspect ratio (image)` article. It corresponds to the aspect
ratio of 16:1.
Very long and thin!! :-)
It's the aspect ratio of the original Newbrain built in display (16
characters and one line).
I remember them
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I worked on them (in my vacation from being a student) and carried
the first two hand wired prototypes to the BBC for filming of "The Computer
Programme" (yes the Newbrain was originally intended to be the BBC
computer) later it was re-filmed using the Acorn machine (after Newbury
Labs failed to get the 'brain into production because the ULAs kept
melting). Grundy put the TTL prototype into production which must have cost
nearly the selling price to make. I was quite shocked when I got to take a
production one apart to see that it was all but identical to the hand wired
TTL prototypes.
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The computer obeys and wins. | A better way to focus the sun
You lose and Bill collects. | licences available see
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