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FreeBSD on HP Pavilion zt3000 notebook
Information based on FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE on a Pavilion zt3312EA notebook. dmesg output
Interestingly, nothing on this page has changed compared to 5.4-STABLE.
This page is work in progress, and the "not working" section might also be changed when some other projects come to a result.
Working
- Battery status
- ACPI powerdown
- PC card slot
- AC97 sound
Special keys in Xorg: Volume, Mute, Web browser, Screensaver (needs misc/hotkeys port, and two appropriate config files: feynman-hotkeys.conf and feynman-hpzt3000.def .)
Xorg graphic display with Radeon driver (xorg.conf, somewhat experimental)
- Ethernet interface
- USB ports
- Writing and reading DVDs and CDs
- IrDA port
Touchpad (needs imwheel port for mouse-wheel imitation - $HOME/.imwheelrc)
WLAN (1)
Not working
SD card slot (3)
ACPI power management: standy, /SuspendToDisk
AC97 modem (I am working on an Ac97mDriver for this)
- Special keys: Fn-F1, Fn-F4, Fn-F6.
Mute LED on keyboard (4)
Notes
(1)The WLAN interface is a Intel PRO Wireless 2200BG Mini-PCI card. From 6.2-PRERELEASE on, I am no longer using the NDISulator, but FreeBSD's iwi(4) driver which seems to be stable enough now.
(3)The SD card reader is attached to the LPC bus, I have been told by HP tech support. I have not yet concentrated on getting this to work, but I was really happy to get this kind of information from their supportline. Judging from the ACPI PCI ID (WEC0518), this is a Winbond W83L518D chip. For Linux, there exists a driver project for this. I have also started coding a driver for FreeBSD (which is not that easy, as it has no MMC framework as Linux does), the WbcrDriver.
(4)HP supportline was actually really friendly when I asked them where the Mute LED was wired to. The answer was "it goes to the sound board", but unfortunately that was all they were able and willing to give out on this. It does not seem to be directly wired to the AC97 sound chip, though, as this function would be supported by fBSD's audio driver, as far as I have seen from the source.
From time to time, feynman panics with strange symptoms which I cannot really explain. In case you want to have a look at it, here are /StackTraces of the last panics
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