From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 04:22:18 2003 Return-Path: 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 104BB37B401 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E514443F3F for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 04:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h69BLTdP040248; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 05:21:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 05:21:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20030709.052128.39156672.imp@bsdimp.com> To: knowtree@aloha.com From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200307082215.h68MFtmT016507@koa.aloha.com> References: <200307082215.h68MFtmT016507@koa.aloha.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Choosing a new laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:22:18 -0000 In message: <200307082215.h68MFtmT016507@koa.aloha.com> knowtree@aloha.com writes: : FreeBSD on it. How does the MPC-205 compare? : o Battery life, Gnome 1.4, < 2 hrs, noticably less when using XEmacs. I'm getting about 2.5-3 hours from my X environment. I have the speed set to '4' (of 8) in ecconomy mode, which helps a lot. I found an extended life battery in akihabara this past week and have been getting more like 7-9 hours of life out of it, depending on what I'm doing. i'm working on some code here to make freebsd sip power better, but haven't committed them yet due to some undesirable side effects. : o Cannot adjust LCD brightness without Windows, so Win2K is still : clogging up the HD. Can do that at any time, and the bios remembers the setting for the power mode. I have no windows on this machine, but it came to me that way. I think this is a function of the bios or something, but don't know the mechanism well enough to comment further. i know there's no program in freebsd that i've found to do lcd level manipulations. still, being able to set it using the keyboard is very nice. : o Hardware initiated suspend works, but pressing any key awakens. I have tried : to conserve battery by booting and going into suspend on A/C power, but while : riding bike, pressue on unit has caused it to wake up, so it arrives very hot : and tired. I've not tried to get suspend/resume working. there are some issues with doing this that are generic to freebsd that i have only partial patches for. however, when i have tested it in the past, i have to try pretty hard to resume. i do set it to S4 because S4 bios is true. I've not done much (any?) testing of S3 mode. i had to hack things a little to have the right S modes work. but the fiva only supports s3 s4 and s5. : o No timeout initiated suspend, only HD and LCD power down. I haven't tried to set this up. so i don't know how easy/hard this would be. : o WEP encryption does not work, a driver issue. I don't use wep much. : o Hibernation does not work. if by this you mean S3, then when i've tested itin the past it works to a point, but there are some issues with it. : Is it possible to watch DVDs in FreeBSD, or is that another reason to keep the : Windows partition? I do this all the time with my Dell I8000, but it has the dvd drive built in. i have no experience with dvd via cardbus/pccard to speak of. : Can you recommend a supplier? no. i got mine as a gift from Casio so that i could improve freebsd support on the platform. Warner