From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 22:44:03 2004 Return-Path: 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 805E616A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:44:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (mproxy.gmail.com [216.239.56.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65BB043D5E for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:44:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from assadbsd@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x43so124663cwb for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.11.100.76 with SMTP id x76mr173741cwb; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:44:00 -0700 From: 3BSD To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Best older model laptop for FreeBSD 5.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 22:44:03 -0000 Hi, I'm thinking about buying an older model laptop to put FreeBSD 5.x on. I had an IBM Thinkpad T21 and FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE ran fine, but the XFree86 drivers were less than stable, and so was the ACPI support, sound support was also very dodgy. Now I have the urge to put FreeBSD on a laptop again. I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a P2/P3 laptop from a company like IBM, or even Dell, that has almost no problems running FreeBSD. I don't really care too much about good sound, but I do care about stable X drivers and all the rest. MTIA -3BSD