From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 5 18:46:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6D637B772 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:46:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@wantadilla.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA01203; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:16:31 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 11:16:31 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Lee Weng Seng Cc: Michel Talon , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Why run FreeBSD on laptops? (was: Configure X on Dell Inspiron 3500) Message-ID: <20000706111631.D993@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <00c701bfe63e$38fb0900$b89d75cb@tdprk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <00c701bfe63e$38fb0900$b89d75cb@tdprk> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Wednesday, 5 July 2000 at 13:01:19 +0800, Lee Weng Seng wrote: > Michael you wrote, > >> My laptop, a Dell Inspiron 3500 can be suspended to memory or to >> disk without any problem, while running X. It then wakes up >> correctly, eveything working, mouse display, sound, and even >> USB. So it must be some special feature of the video card in this >> case. > > Can you enlighten me with the options you've chosen for XF86Config on your > Dell Inspiron 3500? I'm about to install X and I need as much info as > possible so that I won't cause serious harm to the LCD screen. > > My sweet puppy is a 3500 too and running on fbsd 3.4. > > Maybe this question sounds odd but why would anyone want to run fbsd on a > laptop? As for me, I use it as a test machine for web server to resides, > while I beg for more money for an entry level PowerEdge. That's a strange question. Why should a FreeBSD user *not* want to run it on his laptop? For one thing, it makes it more difficult to get the kind of mutilation that you seem to accept: >My laptop, a Dell Inspiron 3500 can be suspended to memory or to disk without any >problem, while running X. It then wakes up correctly, eveything working, mouse >display, sound, and even USB. So it must be some special feature of the video >card in this case. This was caused by your MUA: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Now I can (barely) understand that some people want to run Microsoft, but lots of us go crazy every time we're forced to use it. Or are you suggesting we should run, say, NetBSD on our laptops? There's a certain advantage in that, since NetBSD supports CardBus, but so far it hasn't been enough reason for me. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message