From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 3 06:43:24 2005 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 7595A16A41F for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 06:43:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wrangled@verizon.net) Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 305C443D45 for ; Sat, 3 Dec 2005 06:43:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wrangled@verizon.net) Received: from [192.168.0.29] ([68.236.212.14]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-4.02 (built Sep 9 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0IQW00MN2TCAFND3@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 03 Dec 2005 00:43:23 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 01:43:18 -0500 From: wrangled To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-id: <43913E86.3080409@verizon.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Subject: Will FreeBSD *EVER* support Hp Pavillion laptops? 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: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 06:43:24 -0000 Every year I try the latest version of FreeBSD to see if it works on my HP Pavillion 5445, and each year it hangs as soon as the intaller gets to acpi.ko. Yes, I've tried everything. No, it still doesn't work. It's my only machine that cannot run FreeBSD. It just seems odd since the machine is fairly mainstream. I am mostly just curious at this point.