Just got a HP Compaq CQ50-217CL notebook for Christmas.
I'll post the dmesg, but to sum it up:
CPU: AMD Athlon Dual Core QL-62 (1MB L2 Cache)
Memory: 2GB
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8200M
Audio: "NVIDIA MCP77 HD Audio
Networking: Atheros AR5424 -and- NVIDIA MCP77 LAN
Disk Space: 250GB
As you can no doubt see, there's lots of hardware by NVIDIOUS in this thing.
The only NVIDIA device which actually works out of the box is Ethernet. Interestingly, the manual for the 'azalia' driver states that MCP77 does work, although I continue to receive boot messages stating 'no codecs found'. If this is in fact a bug in the driver, I guess I should'nt be worried, as azalia is currently being worked on.
Atheros wifi won't work, either, although I just bought a separate USB wifi adapter to remedy this. The AR5424 is recognized by ath, but a quick
# ifconfig -M ath0
crashes the system.
The 'nv' driver provided by Xorg appears not to work either, leaving me to use the ugly 'vesa' driver which makes graphics rendering
extremely slow.
Right now, I am using 4.4-release, but I will probably follow -current in the coming months.
Aside from poor audio and video performance, the machine runs very fast, and ACPI does not crash the system (although it doesn't appear to work perfectly, either). Using
% apm -b
I can successfully check battery status, but
% apm -S
does not suspend the machine.
All in all, it is a positive BSD experience, but not perfect. Since I wanted this for school/coding, I think that what I have will suit me well enough for the time being.
Code:
OpenBSD 4.4 (GENERIC.MP) #1812: Tue Aug 12 17:22:53 MDT 2008
deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/s...ile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 1864462336 (1778MB)
avail mem = 1809268736 (1725MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xdc010 (18 entries)
bios0: vendor Hewlett-Packard version "F.25" date 10/03/2008
bios0: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Presario CQ50 Notebook PC
acpi0 at bios0: rev 3
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SLIC MCFG HPET APIC BOOT SSDT
acpi0: wakeup devices LID0(S3) SLPB(S3) MAC0(S5) AZA0(S3) P2P0(S5) KBD0(S3) PS2M(S3)
acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits
acpihpet0 at acpi0: 25000000 Hz
acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat
cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor)
cpu0: AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-62, 2000.30 MHz
cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,CX16,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW
cpu0: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu0: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu0: apic clock running at 200MHz
cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor)
cpu1: AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-62, 2000.04 MHz
cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT,SSE3,CX16,NXE,MMXX,FFXSR,LONG,3DNOW2,3DNOW
cpu1: 64KB 64b/line 2-way I-cache, 64KB 64b/line 2-way D-cache, 512KB 64b/line 16-way L2 cache
cpu1: ITLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
cpu1: DTLB 32 4KB entries fully associative, 8 4MB entries fully associative
ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 24 pins
acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0)
acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 1 (P2P0)
acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (IXVE)
acpiec0 at acpi0
acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 120 degC
acpitz1 at acpi0: critical temperature 120 degC
acpicpu0 at acpi0: PSS
acpicpu1 at acpi0: PSS
acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID0
acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB
acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 model "Primary" type LION oem "Hewlett-Packard "
acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online
acpibtn2 at acpi0: PWRB
acpivideo at acpi0 not configured
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x0754 (class memory subclass RAM, rev 0xa2) at pci0 dev 0 function 0 not configured
pcib0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x075e rev 0xa2
vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x0752 (class serial bus subclass SMBus, rev 0xa1) at pci0 dev 1 function 1 not configured
vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x0753 (class processor subclass Co-processor, rev 0xa2) at pci0 dev 1 function 3 not configured
vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x0568 (class memory subclass RAM, rev 0xa1) at pci0 dev 1 function 4 not configured
ohci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x077b rev 0xa1: apic 2 int 11 (irq 11), version 1.0, legacy support
ehci0 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x077c rev 0xa1: apic 2 int 7 (irq 7)
usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
uhub0 at usb0 "NVIDIA EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
ohci1 at pci0 dev 4 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x077d rev 0xa1: apic 2 int 5 (irq 5), version 1.0, legacy support
ehci1 at pci0 dev 4 function 1 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x077e rev 0xa1: apic 2 int 10 (irq 10)
usb1 at ehci1: USB revision 2.0
uhub1 at usb1 "NVIDIA EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1
pciide0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP77 IDE" rev 0xa1: DMA, channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
pciide0: channel 0 disabled (no drives)
pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
azalia0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP77 HD Audio" rev 0xa1: apic 2 int 10 (irq 10)
azalia0: RIRB time out
azalia0: RIRB time out
azalia0: No codecs found
ppb0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x075a rev 0xa1
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pciide1 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP77 AHCI" rev 0xa2: DMA (unsupported), channel 0 wired to native-PCI, channel 1 wired to native-PCI
pciide1: using apic 2 int 11 (irq 11) for native-PCI interrupt
atapiscsi0 at pciide1 channel 0 drive 0
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets, initiator 7
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <Slimtype, DVD A DS8A2S-A, 6H63> ATAPI 5/cdrom removable
wd0 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 0: <ST9250827AS>
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 238475MB, 488397168 sectors
nfe0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 "NVIDIA MCP77 LAN" rev 0xa2: apic 2 int 11 (irq 11), address 00:1f:16:47:6e:b8
rlphy0 at nfe0 phy 1: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
ppb1 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x0569 rev 0xa1
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
vga1 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x0845 rev 0xa2
wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
drm at vga1 unsupported
ppb2 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 vendor "NVIDIA", unknown product 0x077a rev 0xa1: apic 2 int 10 (irq 10)
pci3 at ppb2 bus 7
ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 10 (irq 10)
ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR4W, address 00:23:4d:d6:f7:70
pchb0 at pci0 dev 24 function 0 "AMD AMD64 11h HyperTransport" rev 0x40
pchb1 at pci0 dev 24 function 1 "AMD AMD64 11h Address Map" rev 0x00
pchb2 at pci0 dev 24 function 2 "AMD AMD64 11h DRAM Cfg" rev 0x00
pchb3 at pci0 dev 24 function 3 "AMD AMD64 11h Misc Cfg" rev 0x00
pchb4 at pci0 dev 24 function 4 "AMD AMD64 11h Link Cfg" rev 0x00
isa0 at pcib0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
spkr0 at pcppi0
usb2 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub2 at usb2 "NVIDIA OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
usb3 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3 "NVIDIA OHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1
mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support
zyd0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 "Belkin USB2.0 WLAN" rev 2.00/48.10 addr 2
softraid0 at root
root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b
zyd0: HMAC ZD1211B, FW 47.25, RF AL2230, PA 0, address 00:17:3f:6b:cb:9a