From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 7 13:36:28 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 68F1C16A41C for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:36:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B54AE43D45 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 13:36:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 42006 invoked by uid 1005); 7 Jul 2005 13:36:26 -0000 Received: from rainer@ultra-secure.de by bsd.ultra-secure.de by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamdscan: 0.85. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(213.196.191.65):. Processed in 0.029881 secs); 07 Jul 2005 13:36:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@213.196.191.65) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 7 Jul 2005 13:36:26 -0000 Message-ID: <42CD2FDA.8010102@ultra-secure.de> Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:36:26 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200507071318.j67DISdr070947@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200507071318.j67DISdr070947@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Samsung X20-XVM 1600-V 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: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 13:36:28 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: >Rainer Duffner wrote: > > I couldn't yet get 1400x1050 to work on my FSC Lifebook E8010 (i855GM). > > I used i855ctl, but it only works (=has a positive effect) with SuSE 9.2. > >There's a tool called "855resolution" (which supposedly >also supports the i915 and others), and an enhanced >version called "915resolution". It is for Linux, but >shouldn't be difficult to port to FreeBSD. Some URLs: > >http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/ >http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/ > >Someone ported it to FreeBSD (you need to recompile the >enclosed *.c file manually, it seems): > >http://people.tecnik93.com/~acpi_perf/ > > > I tried the version from Damien Bergamini. http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/i855vidctl/ Must try those you mentioned. With the drivers from Damien's page, you should also get the WLAN to work, though. >They give a 2-year pick-up warranty. What more could I >ask for? > They don't say how long it takes to "pick" it up - and you don't know how long it takes until you get it back. While various trade-magazine horror-stories may not be representative, they are reason enough for me to stay away from consumer-level notebooks: simply too many customers and too little incentive for vendors to produce quality goods. >I'm also very satisfied with Samsung's service >on harddisk. I've recently had a broken Samsung IDE HDD >(slightly more than 2 years old). I called their hotline >and was told that the drive has 3 years of warranty, and >got instructed to package and send them the HDD for re- >placement. When I told the guy that I use BSD instead of >Windows, he even suggested to include a hardcopy of the >system log which contains applicable error messages from >the drive. > >Samsung may be "consumer-level", but I'm quite satisfied >with their service. > > Good for you. I hope the Laptop CS is also run by the same people ;-) Rainer