From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 26 03:53:15 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 D7FEB16A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 03:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from freek.com (freek.com [206.252.131.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A6C43D1F for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 03:53:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dorqus@freek.com) Received: by freek.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3FD689E787; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:53:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 06:53:13 -0500 From: Josh Rivel To: mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031226115313.GA24277@freek.com> References: <20031225.203937.50275884.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031225.203937.50275884.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Least supported laptop for FreeBSD under $1k X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:53:16 -0000 Warner- M. Warner Losh wrote... > So what's the least supported by FreeBSD modern laptop under $1k? I'm > looking for one that has bad interrupt routing, resource conflict > issues or pccard/cardbus problems. I'm not counting 'sound doesn't > work' or 'modem doens't work' as least supported for these purposes. My IBM Thinkpad R32 works fine under FreeBSD/5.2-beta. I paid $950 for it new on ebay. Only thing that doesn't seem to work (or maybe I just haven't figured it out yet) is suspend & resume. Closing the lid brings this message: acpi0: Sleep state S1 not supported by BIOS Also, if I don't do a cold boot from WinXP into FreeBSD, once I start X the machine will hang and I need to remove the battery. If I do a cold boot, it works fine (Had the same symptoms with both OpenBSD -current and Debian Linux unstable) I have not tried USB support with it however, so I can't speak to how that works. Audio works fine, and my old-school Wavelan card works great. So I'd say that's a sub-$1k notebook that works well with FreeBSD. laptop:~> uname -a FreeBSD laptop.freek 5.2-BETA FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #0: Sat Dec 6 23:15:20 EST 2003 dorqus@laptop.freek:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP i386 -- josh