From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 27 23:37:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org 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 B103616A403 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:37:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 462EB43D46 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:37:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 4317 invoked by uid 399); 27 Oct 2006 23:37:38 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.8?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Oct 2006 23:37:38 -0000 Message-ID: <45429837.3000402@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:37:27 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Ambrisko References: <200610272236.k9RMa54Z032403@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200610272236.k9RMa54Z032403@ambrisko.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Experience with Dell Latitude D620? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:37:40 -0000 Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Doug Barton writes: > | Doug Ambrisko wrote: > | > The _2_ version is supposed to be 64-bit. I waiting to get such > | > a laptop from work with a 19.2x12 screen. I will be using > | > it in 64bit mode and compiling for both 32bit and 64bit stuff. > | > Since the other 64bit variants work Celeron etc. I would expect > | > the mobile version to just work. > | > | It does, thanks! My only regret so far is that the nvidia drivers > | don't have a 64 bit version, but the box and video card are fast > | enough so that isn't really a problem. I'm pleasantly surprised that > | so far all of my ports work in 64 bit mode as well. > > That was my experience with the nvidia stuff before :-( > > FYI, it should be trival to jail/chroot 32bit env. on your 64bit host. > > I should merge some of the make/env. bits from -current to -stable. > I'll do it after 6.2 is out. I'm thinking about make a general > purpose way to create an image and jump into it. We have it at > work and as a proof of concept. I created a 32bit environment on > a 64bit host and did port built and package add in there of Linux > stuff. Eeek, I didn't know that linux stuff wouldn't work, thanks. The thing I use it for most often is acroread, what do people use to view pdfs in 64-bit land? I just tried epdfview, and it was about 50% successful. As for your other stuff, I was planning to give qemu a try to run both windows, and other versions of FreeBSD in a 64-bit 7-current host OS. I also like your idea of doing the chroot environment, that might be a lighter weight solution for day to day stuff. Are you going to write up what you've done? Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection