From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 22:19:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED68516A4CF; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:19:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62A5343D45; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:19:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pierre.weis@inria.fr) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6LMJiEV016547; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:19:44 +0200 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id AAA18393; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:19:43 +0200 (MET DST) From: Pierre Weis Message-Id: <200407212219.AAA18393@pauillac.inria.fr> In-Reply-To: <40FEDE09.1040100@centtech.com> from Eric Anderson at "Jul 21, 104 04:20:09 pm" To: anderson@centtech.com (Eric Anderson) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 00:19:43 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 40FEEC00.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! cc: phk@phk.freebsd.dk cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: w8hdkim@yahoo.com Subject: Re: laptop for -current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:19:54 -0000 [...] > I'm using a Dell D600, and it's excellent.. > > Eric > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology > Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. > ------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm also running -current on a Dell laptop (a Precision M60 with the large (1920x1200 pixels) screen). It works pretty well, although not perfectly: I have not managed to have ACPI working properly and I have problems with the Nvidia driver (I had to revert to the XFree nv driver to get X running). Also, the FireFox port can be compiled and installed but the resulting program core dumps too often to be usable. This may be because I'm using a cutting edge X-server from XFree86 (version 4.4.99.9); anyway, I am now obliged to use Netscape which is not my browser of choice :( On the other hand, the OS is rock solid and all the sub-systems work perfectly: USB1, USB2, FireWire, PC-cards, CD/RW/DVD reader, Bluetooth, the Broadcom NICs (either the 10/100/1000 Mb/s wired ethernet, or the 802.11 a/b/g wireless card)! To my knowledge, this OS is the best fit for this machine :) Also, the machine itself is excellent: it runs fast, has a silent and fast hard disk and the screen is a dream. This laptop is just a bit heavy to carry and it pumps the battery way too quickly (in my case, 2 hours and a half is enough to dry it up). In conclusion: a very good OS/machine combination, that would be excellent if only the ACPI system could slow down the processor and put the machine asleep... Hope this helps, Pierre Weis INRIA, Projet Cristal, Pierre.Weis@inria.fr, http://pauillac.inria.fr/~weis/