Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:03:50 +0100 From: Paul Kaletta <paul@ewido.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: How do Dell-Notebooks work with FreeBSD (video/audio/wlan)? Message-ID: <86is7qot95.fsf@ewido.net>
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Hi, I think that I'll buy a Laptop soon. I haven't made up my mind yet, but I think that I might buy a Dell, since they're so cheap and I haven't heard many bad things. Those Notebooks come with Windows preinstalled, but I'd like to run FreeBSD if it's possible. Has anyone any experience with them? Is all of the build-in hardware supported? What about accelerated video? There is some choice about different displays, and some of them have very very high resolutions like 1600x1200 on a 15"-screen. Is such a display usable under X? And another very important question: I wanted to play around with audio-software, so how good is the build-in audio-card? Especially I would like to know whether Dell-Notebooks have an line-in, since I'm not certain from the descriptions on the web-site. Also: is the audio-output very noisy or can I use the line in for any recordings? (I don't need very high quality, but I'd like to record myself playing guitar and use that as background-music for improvisations). If it's not feasible to use the build-in hardware, can I use external audio-hardware with FreeBSD? Like pc-card or USB soundcards? I'm not entirely sure, but I think that the wlan hardware kinda works, even if I have to use ndisulator, right? Is there any hope that I don't have use it one day? Sorry that I asked so many questions in one mail, but they really only concern Dell-Notebooks, so someone who has a recent model could probably give me some hints. Thanks Paul
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