From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 23 11:55:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03879 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03808 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:55:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from cole.salk.edu (cole [198.202.70.113]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA15914; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:54:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 11:54:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol To: c5666305 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: laptop for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199804230358.LAA10828@cssolar82.COMP.HKP.HK> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FYI, Normally questions like this go to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org but I'll answer your message. I'm running the FreeBSD-2.2.5-PAO kernel on my IBM ThinkPad 770. I have 96MB RAM, 5.1GB disk, 14.1in 1024x768 screen, CDROM, and 3Com 3C589D pc-card ethernet adapter. I'm using Xfree86-3.3.2 and it all works great!! The view in X is beautiful from here! I installed using 2.2.6-RELEASE and then installed and built the 2.2.5-PAO kernel. All the power management and hot pluggable pc-card features work great! The sound is problematic in 2.2.5. If I boot into 2.2.6 then the sound works fine under Luigi's pcm sound driver. When PAO goes into -stable or -current I'll switch to that to get sound but the power management features take precedence for my needs. Suspend/Resume work great -- the uptime on my ThinkPad is now 5 days (I had to boot into win95 to do some silly things for someone 5 days ago)! Hope this helps, Tom On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, c5666305 wrote: > Hello, > > I am not sure this is the right place to post the question about laptop that > can run FreeBSD. If not, please forget me as I cannot find any way to ask > for it. I have searched and reviewed the PAO and found that not much of the > record not latop running FreeBSD under XFree86 3.3.x environment. I would > like to know if anyone whose machine is running XFree86 3.3.2, please send > the configuration of your machine to me as I am going to buy a laptop for > my final year project presentation and for future use. My idea machine > may be IBM thinkpad 535x (I didn't quite the series number). Any > suggestion? Thanks. > > Clarence > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message