From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Dec 18 23:24:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DA6915228 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA95311; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:24:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:24:48 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Tom Uffnera Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sony vaio xg9 reccomendations? In-Reply-To: <385C83B7.AC1560E7@wact.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Tom Uffnera wrote: > any suggestions for the best FreeBSD configuration for a Sony VAIO > PCG-XG9 ? I unfortunately need to leave win98 on it, although I can > reduce the size of the partition it lives in. i run -current on most > of my machines, but so far i have no recent experience with running > FreeBSD on a laptop (not since 2.2.2) I will be using -current on my new laptop. I plan to cut the FAT partition down to 500MB or so if I can and then to use vmware to access it, rather than run w98 native (if i can). > > from what i've seen on the current & hackers lists it seems like 4.0 is > probably not the best option at the moment, but i haven't had much of > a chance to look at how things work in 3.3 w/ or w/o PAO 4.0 is apparently struggling to life on laptops but its still a bit dodgy I hear. I'm hoping to get first hand experience of this soon :-) > > i can live w/o the internal modem, and sound if necessary, but i would like > to have X, a well supported network card, and suspend modes. i'm pretty > comfortable with -current on my non-critical desktop systems and wouldn't > mind being a test site if that's where most of the hardware is supported. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message