Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:33:02 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <zombyfork@gmail.com> To: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> Cc: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Subject: Re: Compaq R3000Z status Message-ID: <346a8022050209093352c9f76d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200502081156.51114.nb_root@videotron.ca> References: <20050208163758.GA1086@NitroPhys.welchsmnet.net> <200502081156.51114.nb_root@videotron.ca>
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Hey, if you are looking for an amd64 laptop, get the e-machines or gateway 2000 one. There are many less headaches and it works right off the bat withn 5.3-release. The HP and Compaq ones will require you to maintain a long list of patchsets to keep them up and running. check out my page on both: http://www.cokane.org/amd64.html I have a Gateway 7422gx that I got from best buy (US mega-chain). It works great! I would recommend taking a boot cd into the store with you to test it out, thats what I did. The sales people typically get a cut of whatever they are selling so they will let you do what you want. On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:56:49 -0500, Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> wrote: > I'm running 5.3-STABLE (amd64) on my R3240CA with several patches found on > this mailing list. It's running fine, my only complaint would be that > wireless doesn't work (even tried with NDIS but WPA won't work... I heard it > works in -CURRENT)... Also, sometimes the laptop won't recover from a > suspend. A part from that, it really works fine and it is basically a laptop > copy of my Amd64 3500 box with OO, mplayer and what not. > > Nicolas. > > > On February 8, 2005 11:37, Sean Welch wrote: > > I don't wish to clutter the mailing list but can someone give me a > > succinct description of what is supported under FreeBSD on a R3000Z? > > > > My Dell I8000 is getting a bit long in the tooth but I'm loath to > > give up full hardware support. I really would like high end > > graphics (at least resolution) with 64 bit support. > > > > I'm specifically interested in 3D accel, suspend/resume, power > > states (throttling), peripherals (built in, or external), wireless, > > and battery life. > > > > My hope is to find a laptop that is fully supported in i386 mode > > that will also run in 64 bit mode reasonably and is actively > > developed so that eventually it will be fully supported in that mode > > as well. > > > > Comments? I appreciate whatever time anyone can spend on this. > > > > Sean > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-amd64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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