FreeBSD on Acer Aspire 1641WLMI
This page summarizes my experiences with FreeBSD 6.0 on an Acer Aspire
1641 WLMI laptop.
This probably applies to any laptop from the Acer
Aspire 1640 series (1641, 1642, 1643).
X-Window
The stock i810 driver in 6.0-RELEASE does not handle the 915GM chipset
in this machine, although newer versions do. Furthermore, you need to
use 915resolution to handle the 1280x800 screen size.
You can do both modifications in one step by downloading the i810_drv.so file from this page and adding Option "ForceBIOS" "1024x768=1280x800" to the Device section of the X.org config file.
Download my xorg.conf.
ACPI
I used to get these errors on the console :
ACPI-0438: *** Error: Looking up [Z00A] in namespace,
AE_NOT_FOUND
ACPI-1304: *** Error: Method execution failed [\\_SB_.BAT1._BST] (Node
0xc199f640), AE_NOT_FOUND
I corrected the ACPI code as explained in this message.
You can download my fixed ACPI DSDT table from here.
Sound
The sound controller is an Intel 82801 HDA (High-Definition Audio), aka
Azalia.
This chipset is finally supported by FreeBSD ! Yay ! See this post by Ariff Abdullah.
WLAN
The embedded WLAN controller is handled by the iwi
driver. Just follow the instructions
here.
More hardware info
Current dmesg, output of pciconf -lv.
More information ?
I can be reached at :
