Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:51:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jslivko@jslivko.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Best Laptop for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106301146570.37556-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10106301521190.14555-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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On 2001-06-30, Jonathan M. Slivko scribbled: # I'm looking to invest in a laptop to run FreeBSD so I can work on it while # i'm on the road. Any reccomendations for brand names, etc. that are # guaranteed to work with FreeBSD, without a whole lot of fiddling? TIA! If you have the money, I would probably recommend the IBM Thinkpad T21 (or now the T22). I have a T21 with the integrated Ethernet, 14" display, DVD-ROM and a 20GB hard drive. I have both Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE installed on it. I would highly recommend on getting the one with the built-in Intel Ethernet controller (since the cost is only a little bit more, less than a PC Card Ethernet controller). The only thing that I haven't been able to get to work is the sound and the modem (doubt if the modem will ever work since it's a Winmodem). As far as XFree86, I have the Savage IX8 chipset and it works with XFree86 3.3.6 using the SVGA drivers (maybe one of the S3 drivers too, but didn't try). The T21 and T22 that have the hi-res display (the ones that can go above 1280x1024) use a different chipset and will probably require XFree86 4.x -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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