From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 23 07:27:50 2003 Return-Path: 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 4B30037B401 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 07:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from samson.dc.luth.se (samson.dc.luth.se [130.240.112.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A409943FB1 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 07:27:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bj@dc.luth.se) Received: from dc.luth.se (root@bompe.dc.luth.se [130.240.60.42]) by samson.dc.luth.se (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h3NERhLG008399; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:27:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from bompe.dc.luth.se (bj@localhost.dc.luth.se [127.0.0.1]) by dc.luth.se (8.12.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h3NERg2F039773; Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:27:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bj@bompe.dc.luth.se) Message-Id: <200304231427.h3NERg2F039773@dc.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Wesley Morgan In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:17:16 EDT. <20030423101128.Q5477@volatile.chemikals.org> Dcc: From: Borje Josefsson X-Disposition-notification-to: Borje.Josefsson@dc.luth.se X-uri: http://www.dc.luth.se/~bj/index.html Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:27:42 +0200 Sender: bj@dc.luth.se cc: Tom cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Toshiba laptops X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: bj@dc.luth.se List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:27:50 -0000 On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:17:16 EDT Wesley Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Tom wrote: > = > > does anyone have any experience installing freebsd on a toshiba lapto= ps in > > general or ( specifically ) the satellite 1415 S173? what works/does= n't > > work? > = > My satellite pro 6000 works fantastically with 5-current. In the past f= ew > months, someone fixed the ohci code to work properly, and either someon= e > fixed the t4dwave driver or the new system board I had put in (warranty= > issue) upgraded some chips and they now work. I'm guessing the Yamaha > chipset (IIRC that's what it has) is well supported. The geforce4 chip = is > supported by X and the nvidia drivers will probably work fine. > = > You'll want to run 5.0 for cardbus support. > = > The only piece of hardware that probably won't work is the modem. But w= ho > needs modems any more, and you can always pick up a pccard modem that > works. I have a Xircom type3 that works fine for traveling. I tried FreeBSD on my Portege 2000 last summer. While most things work = fine, I couldn't get the function keys (Func+Fn) to work (for example = Func+F5 to change between LCD and external video). It seems that all of = those keys are not handled by the BIOS directly, but instead interpreted = by Windows. If it was just for changing int/ext video, I could have lived= = with the problem, but not when LCD light, speaker volume etc also are = affected :-( There exists a Linux program "tosutils" that (supposedly) handles this, = but I haven't found a FreeBSD version of that yet. --B=F6rje