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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2009 06:54:57 +0100
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        Wilyarti Howard <charlie1337@bigpond.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: EeePC 701SD
Message-ID:  <20090209055457.GA1821@rebelion.Sisis.de>
In-Reply-To: <498F94BC.6090301@bigpond.com>
References:  <498F94BC.6090301@bigpond.com>

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El día Monday, February 09, 2009 a las 01:28:12PM +1100, Wilyarti Howard escribió:

> I am new to this list and wish to inform all those internested that I 
> have got FreeBSD 7.1 RELEASE on the EeePC going well.
> 
> The only things that DO NOT work are Camera and Wireless.
> 
> There were huge problems with speed until I enabled tmpfs for ALL tmp 
> directories and put noatime in /etc/fstab.
> 
> I also couldnt partion the hard drive for space reason.
> 
> Also it will not boot if you have another umass storage device besides 
> the SD card because freebsd assigns the USB stick to da0 not the hard drive.
> 
> Is there a demand or need by the FreeBSD developers for me to test 
> drivers or post info of my Kernel configuration, dmesg and such?
> 
> Or is this not a great achievment :)
> 
> By the way powerd works with eeemon.ko and you can controll CPU speed, 
> screen resolution and see all hardware information.
> 
> If anyone desire such information as /etc/rc.conf, /etc/fstab custom 
> kernal conf and /boot/loader.conf files I would be happy to supply them!
> 
> If only I had such information when I started the 5 day adventure....

It's a bit late, but maybe you can reflect your work with some ideas from here:

http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt
http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee

:-)

	matthias
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