From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 13 16:58:38 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 E004016A400; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:58:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD0243D45; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:58:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:58:30 -0800 Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 98EC545041; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:58:29 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd@meijome.net In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300." <20060313103240.ie1bevcdijs4coko@webmail.meijome.net> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:58:29 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20060313165829.98EC545041@ptavv.es.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:58:40 -0000 > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 > From: freebsd@meijome.net > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > hi everyone, > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) > PATA / SATA with no problems > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, > touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course > > Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. > > >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs > (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, > but I don't think they are so well supported. I have a new Lenovo (IBM) T43 (266875U) that is working well. If you get an integrated A/B/G card, it's Athros based and works very well with FreeBSD and the wpa_supplicant. The internal Winmodem is useless, though. The GE is a Broadcom which works well. Graphics is an ATI Radeon, so you will want to have Radeontool to turn it off. ACPI has no problems and, if you load acpi_ibm, it provides lots of features. Sound is snd_ich and works fine. I disable the touchpad, so I really can't say much about it. If the touchpad is disabled, it has a 3 button mouse. I have not been successful with a suspend/resume cycle while running X. It seems to suspend, but never resumes when in X. If I'm on a vty, it does resume, but the display characters are garbage. "vidcontrol mode 80x25" fixes it, though. I can probably stick this into rc.resume. It's only a 2GHz Pentium-M, though. The new T60s are Core Duo systems, but we don't have one, yet. One was just ordered last week, so I hope to get to play with one soon. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634