First warnings
If you plan to buy an HP slimline, consider buy the Intel version to have good video support (stupid NVidia !)
The begin of the story
Few months before I bought a HP pavillon Slimline. Sold with windows vista, the computer works just fine.
Late I install FreeBSD and the story begins.
Description of the thing
Computer name : HP Pavillon Slimline s3115.fr
Computer description : The s3115.fr in the HP website
Inside the computer :
- AMD Athlon 64×2 4400+
- 2Go SDRAM DDR-2
- 320 Go Sata 3G
- SATA DVD +-R/+-W (lightScribe)
- NVIDIA Geforce 7500 LE TurboCache
- FireWire 1394 connector
- Wifi card 802.11 b/g
- wireless keyboard & mouse
- Hight Definition Audio 7.1
Work/Doesn't work list
Video
Good news for those who bought the intel version, NVidia release drivers for freeBSD i386 (see here)
If like me you have an AMD64 version, you must use the nv drivers. And the result is not so bad.
Also X.org configuration tool did a good job : xorg.conf
Audio
Yes, we have drivers for it : Low latency audio drivers.
Don't forget read the README file
Network
The ethernet card works perfectly.
Wifi, I didn't try this
USB
The USB works in general.
The multicards reader doesn't work (as is).
CD/DVD device
With the FreeBSD 6.2 , if you update your kernel sources, IT WORKS !
The PR #111084 : No support for ahci atapi sata cd/dvd drives (ICH8)
This patch is now part of the sources tree ! Good for me!
Install stupid problems
- As described in the hardwares note, USB keyboards aren't recognized by the AMD64 kernel during the install process.
- More ugly, during the boot sequence, USB mouses produce an unexpected kernel panic. After the boot sequence you can plug your USB mouse and it works perfectly.
OLD PROBLEMS
- As I said before, The DVD device works fine during the boot, but after the kernel load, the device is not recognized anymore. So you can use a cd to start the install process but you must use the ftp servers to finish it.
Pictures
You can see a naked HP slimline here