Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 14:32:58 +0400 From: Ilya Bakulin <webmaster@kibab.com> To: Reg Me Please <regmeplease@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on laptops Message-ID: <20081005143258.fe83e6f7.webmaster@kibab.com> In-Reply-To: <200810021621.52597.regmeplease@gmail.com> References: <200810021621.52597.regmeplease@gmail.com>
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--Signature=_Sun__5_Oct_2008_14_32_58_+0400_UyLMc2xsMAHt7aFm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:21:52 +0200 Reg Me Please <regmeplease@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. >=20 > I'm considering to move from Linux to FreeBSD on my main laptop. > I don't have enough time resources for the "test and try" process > I'd like to know from the community what is the status for: > 0. Core2 Duo CPUs > 1. Support for modern chipsets (ICH8) > 2. support for power management (mostly ACPI and CPU clock freq. ) on lap= tops > 3. support for accelerated graphic cards (nVidia GeForce 8600M GT) > 4. support for Intel wifi (4965 AGN) > 5. support for other hardware like audio, card readers, i-Link, USB >=20 > And, of course, any advise about FreeBSD on laptops will be highly > appreciated. >=20 > Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I'm running FreeBSD 7-STABLE/i386 on Dell Vostro 1310 laptop. So: * Core2Duo CPU is well supported. powerd is able to adjust clock speed acc= ording to current system needs; hardware temperature monitoring (via corete= mp(4) ) works pretty good. * ACPI works OK, though sometimes EC starts to behave strangely. It stops = responding to battery _BST calls, so I have to descrease debug.acpi.ec.time= out in order to work comfortly... Vostro 1310 also has EXTREMELY buggy ACPI= AML (200+ errors when trying to simply recompile ASL). * My GeForce 8400M GS is well supported by proprietary NVIDIA driver. Feat= ures like Tvin-View work nice, also driver adjusts GPU speed according to s= ystem needs. Hardware accelleration works well. * Audio subsystem works nice with recent snd_hda update, including microph= one (Skype runs OK). * My O2Micro card reader is recognized by recent sdhci driver update, but = it handles not all cards I have, and this code is neither in -CURRENT nor i= n -STABLE yet. =20 --=20 Ilya Bakulin <webmaster@kibab.com> --Signature=_Sun__5_Oct_2008_14_32_58_+0400_UyLMc2xsMAHt7aFm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjol90ACgkQo9vlj1oadwgckwCfchOvA7IOJEfdzGxqWkP9ri8j ZG0AnAvCk8TfbsmDXsnXseSjdvK/1y2S =XN0e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Sun__5_Oct_2008_14_32_58_+0400_UyLMc2xsMAHt7aFm--
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