Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:04:57 -0400 From: nawcom <nawcom@nawcom.no-ip.com> To: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on current crop of laptops? Message-ID: <43068FC9.7040104@nawcom.no-ip.com> In-Reply-To: <20050819062343.GA17603@laverenz.de> References: <43040A7A.5030300@vilot.com> <20050819062343.GA17603@laverenz.de>
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When I had my Dell Inspiron 5100, it took a little tweaking but I eventually got agp support to work. I havent heard any info about the newer dell models though Ben Uwe Laverenz wrote: >On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:11:38PM -0600, Tom Vilot wrote: > > > >>I like the (big-ass) Toshiba Satellite machines, but I'm not wedded to >>them. I am curious what people's experiences are with some of the newer >>laptops and what might be recommended. >> >> > >I can recommend the IBM Thinkpad R51, especially the models with Ati >7500 or 9000 graphics, because these chips are supported by the free >drivers that come with Xorg. I run FreeBSD 5.4 on my R51 and I am very >happy with it. > >I have also heard positive statements about the Samsung X20 XVM 1600. > >Uwe > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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