Friday, November 14, 2008

FreeBSD 7.0 on ACER Extensa 5220

Status

Do not work:
- Webcam (there is linux only driver in UVC)
- MMC/SD cardreader (works under Linux (OpenBSD?) with tifm_sd driver)
- Modem (may work under linux as hsf/hcf modem on hda bus)
- Audio out (audio in / microphone in?) does not work when headphones are connected

Work with problems when resumed after suspend:
- NDIS broadcom 4315 WiFi does not work (linux has native broadcom driver)
- console font setting have to be reapplied

Other issues:
- WiFi LED never blinks
- Multimedia, brightness, sound, dollar, euro, etc buttons can be turned on using xmodmap (using xev to get key codes) but they are not mapped in KDE. It should be possible to map volume/mute buttons to change mixer settings BUT it does not seem to be possible to control brightness with brightness buttons (needs acpi support).

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