From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 15:36:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F3A516A401; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:36:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01-lbl.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8C943D46; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:36:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from volatile.chemikals.org (cpe-024-211-118-154.sc.res.rr.com [24.211.118.154]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.southeast.rr.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2FFah1t006224; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (morganw@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volatile.chemikals.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2FFahue042090; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:36:43 -0500 (EST) From: Wesley Morgan To: Norberto Meijome In-Reply-To: <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost> Message-ID: <20060315102759.G31320@volatile.chemikals.org> References: <20060313103240.ie1bevcdijs4coko@webmail.meijome.net> <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:36:48 -0000 On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Norberto Meijome wrote: > What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a > bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could > well be wrong...) > > Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops > fully working ? I'm a huge Toshiba fan, and a HUGE fan of the touchpoint/accupoint devices. As of yesterday I replaced my Satellite Pro 6000 with a new M5-S433. Speaking for -current, not -stable, it boots fine, detects the gig ethernet with the em driver, serial port, usb, touchpad (bleh!), etc work fine. The ATA driver is identified as a "GENERIC ATA controller" and the drive is listed as UDMA33, which is either incorrect (the drive is SATA, I've removed it) or it's just using a SATA-PATA bridge internally. X11 starts up with the nv driver just fine, right now it's humming away beside me installing KDE. The only things that do not work are the builtin wireless, which should have a driver soon, and the sound, which I hope will also have some support soon! I have had a couple of quirks -- several times it has booted up but the ATA driver never saw the HD, but a reboot later it was finding it just fine. I also had trouble getting it to attach to an atheros card I was inserting, but I think that was related to the BIOS setting for device resource allocation rather than a kernel problem. Once i've had it a little longer I'll drop in on the -multimedia list and see if I can spur a little work on the sound. Everything else seems in order. -- This .signature sanitized for your protection