From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 24 04:24:32 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 84F4D16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:24:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net (starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6964C43D54 for ; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:24:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from algould@datawok.com) Received: from 20-74.lctv-b4.cablelynx.com ([24.204.20.74] helo=localhost) by starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1BdLmq-00057O-7L; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:24:32 -0700 Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:27:28 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" To: 3BSD Message-ID: <20040624042728.GA11224@datawok.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-ELNK-Trace: ee791d459e3d6817d780f4a490ca69564776905774d2ac4b2400c7d6a8c1966e331699ff1749d8f6350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 24.204.20.74 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 04:24:32 -0000 On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 03:44:00PM -0700, 3BSD wrote: > 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 I had good luck on a Dell Inspiron 8100. (I'm playing with SUSE Linux 9.1 on it as the moment.) FreeBSD 5.2.1 with ACPI installed without problems. The ltmdm port seems to identify the modem, although I haven't tried to use it. My laptop uses an nVidia chip, so you have a choice of XFree86 or nVidia video drivers; although I've heard there are models with an ATI video chip. You can find lots of FreeBSD laptop information at: http://www.zapatec.com/freebsd/laptop/ Best of luck, Andrew Gould