Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:27:28 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: 3BSD <assadbsd@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best older model laptop for FreeBSD 5.x Message-ID: <20040624042728.GA11224@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <f8646080040623154432329d0c@mail.gmail.com> References: <f8646080040623154432329d0c@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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