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I have a Dell Precision 7540:

webcam works
Intel Wifi 6 works with wifibox
touchpad is not working, but works with nomadbsd, so I need to figure out which kernel module I missed
 
I have decided to revive my very old Acer Aspire from 2010. Modern Linux is unusable on it (2.5 minutes to boot...) and Windows 11 is not supported (legacy BIOS, no UEFI, no TPM, old CPU, etc.).

It's the last device I have with a DVD writer and so I somewhat need it. CPU, RAM, SSD, speakers, keyboard, battery, I replaced almost everything during the years and the case is kept together with a couple of nuts and bolts (literally, it's not a joke).

FreeBSD works perfectly, of course. The only nitpick is that I had to enable "SWCursor" in the X server configuration but everything else didn't need anything on my side.

Display server is Xlibre. inxi output below.

Code: 
System:
  Kernel: FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE amd64 bits: 64 compiler: clang v: 19.1.7
    Console: pty pts/0 OS: FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE
Machine:
  Type: Notebook Mobo: Acer model: Aspire 5742G v: V1.30 serial: N/A
    BIOS: Acer v: 1.30 rev: 30.240 date: 08/13/2012
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5 M 460 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Westmere
    rev: 5 cache: L1: 32 KiB L2: 256 KiB L3: 3 MiB note: check
  Speed (MHz): 2527 min/max: N/A cores: No OS support for core speeds.
  Features: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430/5450/5470] driver: vgapci
    bus-ID: 0:1:0.0
  Device-2: Sonix 1.3M WebCam type: USB driver: N/A bus-ID: 0-0.3:3
  Display: server: N/A driver: loaded: modesetting
  Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable for root.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio driver: hdac
    bus-ID: 0:0:27.0
  Device-2: AMD Cedar HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5400/6300/7300 Series]
    driver: hdac bus-ID: 0:1:0.1
  Sound Server-1: OSS v: N/A running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 1.4.1 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: bge
    port: N/A bus-ID: 0:2:0.0
  IF: bge0 state: N/A speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath
    bus-ID: 0:3:0.0
  IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: associated speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
RAID:
  Device-1: zroot type: zfs status: ONLINE level: linear raw: size: 928 GiB
    free: 922 GiB zfs-fs: size: 899.25 GiB free: 893.36 GiB
  Components: Online: 1:
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: raw: 931.51 GiB usable: 2.7 TiB used: 5.89 GiB (0.2%)
  ID-1: /dev/ada0 vendor: SanDisk model: SDSSDH3 1T00 401100RL
    size: 931.51 GiB scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 897.42 GiB used: 4.07 GiB (0.5%) fs: zfs
    logical: zroot/ROOT/default
  ID-2: /home size: 893.36 GiB used: 96 KiB (0.0%) fs: zfs
    logical: zroot/home
  ID-3: /tmp size: 893.36 GiB used: 148 KiB (0.0%) fs: zfs
    logical: zroot/tmp
  ID-4: /var/log size: 893.36 GiB used: 712 KiB (0.0%) fs: zfs
    logical: zroot/var/log
  ID-5: /var/tmp size: 893.36 GiB used: 96 KiB (0.0%) fs: zfs
    logical: zroot/var/tmp
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/ada0p2
USB:
  Hub-1: 0-0.1:1 info: Intel EHCI root HUB ports: N/A rev: 2.0
  Hub-2: 0-0.2:2 info: 8087:0020 ports: N/A rev: 2.0
  Device-1: 0-0.3:3 info: Sonix 1.3M WebCam type: Video driver: N/A rev: 2.0
  Hub-3: 1-1.1:1 info: Intel EHCI root HUB ports: N/A rev: 2.0
  Hub-4: 1-1.2:2 info: 8087:0020 ports: N/A rev: 2.0
Sensors:
  Message: No sensor data found. Are sensors present?
Info:
  Processes: 101 Uptime: 37m Memory: 7.82 GiB used: 3.37 GiB (43.1%)
  Init: init (BSD) Compilers: gcc: N/A clang: 19.1.7 Packages: 2 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.3.0 inxi: 3.3.11
 
Espionage724 said:
I ran 24H2 on all that no problem (Ivy Bridge + ATI FireGL)
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I know, I had W11 on this very machine for very long time. But hey, I'm already forced to use W11 at work, I ditched Windows on my main machine almost a quarter of century ago and this was the last remaining MS thing I had.
 
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