From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 15:30:24 2006 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 DF7A316A536 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:30:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F67943D5C for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:30:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (hwnsps@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6RFUFqf039689 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:30:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k6RFUFej039688; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:30:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:30:15 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200607271530.k6RFUFej039688@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <700E4D69-659D-4AB1-B31A-30E0906EF4B1@vindaloo.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-mobile User-Agent: tin/1.8.0-20051224 ("Ronay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:30:21 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Notebook recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:30:25 -0000 Christopher Hilton wrote: > Gateway it's time get something new. I'm looking for recommendations. I've bought a Samsung X20-XVM 1600-V. It's not expensive and works very well with FreeBSD (at least for me). > XGA graphics at a minimum of 1280 pixels horizontal and 960 > pixels vertical. 1400x1050 is perfect It even has a little more: 1440x1080. > Pentium M processor for battery life 1.6 GHz ~ 2.0 GHz Pentium-M (Centrino) 1.6 GHz. I think they also have variants with other processors. > Ability to do 3D Video acceleration would be a plus but isn't > strictly necessary. XDAMAGE would be a double plus. It has i915 intel graphics, and 3D video acceleration works perfectly fine with 6-stable. > A real serial port is a plus as I occasionally have to boot the > odd sun workstation. It doesn't have a serial port, like most notebooks today. However, you can buy the optional docking station, which does have a serial port. Or use a USB-serial adapter (if you can find one which is supported by FreeBSD). Here's output from dmesg, Xorg.log and other information: http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/dmesg/centaur/ Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.