From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 16 19:45:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D0216A41F for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:45:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from post-22.mail.nl.demon.net (post-22.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C7C43D46 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:45:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kiffin@gish.demon.nl) Received: from gish.demon.nl ([83.160.27.223]:12197 helo=[192.168.1.34]) by post-22.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EGM9f-000DLQ-RX; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:45:51 +0000 From: Kiffin Gish To: Rainer Duffner In-Reply-To: <432B2019.9030007@ultra-secure.de> References: <1126898216.1316.4.camel@localhost> <432B2019.9030007@ultra-secure.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:45:40 +0200 Message-Id: <1126899940.1316.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideal kernel configuration for Dell Inspiron 8200 ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:45:53 -0000 On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 21:42 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Kiffin Gish wrote: > > >Hello everyone. > > > >I would like to know if there is a good example somewhere of an > >optimized kernel configuration for my Dell Inspiron 8200. > > > >I've got FreeBSD 2.4 running on the GENERIC but want to maximize > >usage/resources for my laptop which is also running the Gnome 2.10 > >desktop and tools. > > > >Can anyone help me? > > > > > > > > > I don't think there's a lot to maximize. > I've still got a Inspiron 4000 and 512 MB (Celeron 800 or so) that's > quite happily running KDE3.x. > Of course, the newer Lifebook E8010 is much snappier, the additional 512 > MB RAM also do help. > > If you want more speed, change to XFCE4. > > > > Rainer > Well maybe not, but one (big) improvement I would think would be to change to the CPUTYPE?=i686 and removing all those device references that are not used, e.g. SCSI, ATAPI tape drives, MD_ROOT, etc. Or am I just doing alot of crazy work with minimal improvements and possible disaster? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands