Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:19:42 -0700 From: Ron Freidel <rfreidel@onewest.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched. Message-ID: <20050214191942.444ca5c2.rfreidel@onewest.net> In-Reply-To: <42114588.3090403@acm.org> References: <4210142F.8000202@optonline.net> <2fd864e050214065120da216e@mail.gmail.com> <42114588.3090403@acm.org>
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:42:48 +0000 "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org> wrote: > Please note I am NOT knocking FreeBSD in any way. I run 5 on my current > laptop (it is fantastic) and 4.stable on several desktop and servers > (also fantastic... the OS, not my ability to run it). I really > appreciate all of the hard work that everyone does for the OS. I just > thought with the popularity of HP/Compaq machines that this would be > fixed quicker than it has. While my post may not actually answer the original post's question, not even the second, I hope in my own twisted way that there may be some relevance... When I shopped for a new laptop, rather than trying the ones available with a boot cd (I would have done so if more stores were in the area) I checked the dmesg list at ... http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd finally settled on a Dell i8600. Pretty much everything works except for the nvidia.com driver, and the win modem, but I never use a modem anyway, and 3d support isn't as important to me as an operating system that works. But who knows... maybe in a year nvidia will release a new driver. I planned to install FreeBSD on any new laptop I purchased, I just wanted to make sure there were no issues. Ron -- My personal signature... 5.3-RELEASE-p5 This space intentionally left blank.
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