Recently, I acquired a used Dell Latitude. It was easy to find documentation on Dell's site for the laptop, unfortunatly none of it was very usefull to get FreeBSD set up on it. Only the video and sound need some tinkering. Here is the relavant information for the two devices that were hard to find.
For sound the Latitude c510/c610 has an Intel based device. In order to get it to function AC97 compatibility is needed. This uses the snd_ich driver. For information on how to load the module reference the FreeBSD handbook . Video on this system comes from a 16mb ATI Radion Mobility, so select the appropriate choices when using xorgconfig.
These are really the only two pieces of information that were necessary and hard to find. Overall the Latitude c510/c610 works great out of the box. Hopefully this is of assistance to Latitude c510/c610 owners.
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