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Finally I get FreeBSD work on my Dell D600 laptop. 

Dell Latitude D600: 
Pentium4 -M Centrino 1.3Ghz 
1x256MB DDR RAM 
30G HITACHI drive 
ATI Radeon 9000 card 
14.1 XGA LCD 
8x TOSHIBA DVD-ROM 
Intel AC97 Soundcard 
Broadcom 57xx based 10/100/1000 Mbit Ethernet adapter 
Conexant D480 MDC V.92/Intel 82801DB AC97 Modem 

The major problem I met for FreeBSD on Dell D600 is the X configuration. Even the last 
time i get it works, the XF86Config has to be changed manually. 

Current version: 
FreeBSD 4.8 release 
XFree86 4.3.0 

What does work: 
1. Radeon drivers could be checked. But it cannot be configured with XFree86 -configure 
correctly. The first thing have to do is to rebuild kernel to disable AGP support. It's 
because when AGP supported, Xfree86 will get Panel size 65535x65535 from BIOS, it's wrong 
information. See XF86Config file followed. (I got the idea after asked Andy from xfree86.org 
and checked NetBSD mail-list. I got Alan's XF86Config file whom make X works well in his 
Dell D600, NetBSD 1.6.) I run KDE 3.1 and it works fine. 
2. Sound card works fine after add kernel with 'device pcm'. 
3. USB works, both USB1 and USB2, maybe not too good in FreeBSD4.8. 
4. Broadcom card works fine, it shows bge0, with media auto-select . 
5. DVD play fine, I installed xine, avifile, RealOne. 
It need to add DVD device for xine: # ln -sf /dev/acd0c /dev/dvd 
and add options in the kernel: 
option CPU_ENABLE_SSE 
option USER_LDT 
I change sysctl.conf too: 
kern.ipc.shmmax=67108864 
kern.ipc.shmall=32768 
6. I use ADSL so not test the modem yet. It doesn't matter for me. 
7. As known bug, the wi wlan not support by Intel yet. 

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XF86Config: 
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Section "ServerLayout" 
Identifier "XFree86 Configured" 
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" 
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" 
EndSection 

Section "Files" 
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" 
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" 
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" 
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/" 
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" 
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" 
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" 
EndSection 

Section "Module" 
Load "dbe" 
# Load "dri" 
SubSection "extmod" 
Option "omit xfree86-dga" 
EndSubSection 
Load "glx" 
Load "record" 
Load "xtrap" 
Load "speedo" 
Load "type1" 
EndSection 

Section "InputDevice" 
Identifier "Keyboard0" 
Driver "keyboard" 
EndSection 

Section "InputDevice" 
Identifier "Mouse0" 
Driver "mouse" 
Option "Protocol" "auto" 
Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" 
EndSection 

Section "Monitor" 
Identifier "Monitor0" 
VendorName "Monitor Vendor" 
ModelName "Monitor Model" 
HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5 
VertRefresh 50-90 
EndSection 

Section "Device" 
### Available Driver options are:- 
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", 
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" 
### [arg]: arg optional 
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] 
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] 
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] 
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>] 
#Option "ForcePCIMode" # [<bool>] 
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>] 
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # <i> 
#Option "AGPMode" # <i> 
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>] 
#Option "AGPSize" # <i> 
#Option "RingSize" # <i> 
#Option "BufferSize" # <i> 
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>] 
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>] 
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>] 
#Option "PanelOff" # [<bool>] 
#Option "DDCMode" # [<bool>] 
#Option "CloneDisplay" # <i> 
#Option "CloneMode" # [<str>] 
#Option "CloneHSync" # [<str>] 
#Option "CloneVRefresh" # [<str>] 
#Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>] 
#Option "VideoKey" # <i> 
Identifier "Card0" 
Driver "radeon" 
VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc" 
BoardName "Radeon R250 Lf [Radeon Mobility 9000 M9]" 
# BusID "PCI:1:0:0" 
EndSection 

Section "Screen" 
Identifier "Screen0" 
Device "Card0" 
Monitor "Monitor0" 
DefaultDepth 24 
SubSection "Display" 
Depth 16 
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" 
EndSubSection 
SubSection "Display" 
Depth 24 
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" 
EndSubSection 
EndSection

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