Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:56:56 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Andy Kosela <akosela@andykosela.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and recent laptops Message-ID: <20090610115656.GA3564@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4a2f94be.MWoXcA9XOCCjKupX%akosela@andykosela.com> References: <4a2f94be.MWoXcA9XOCCjKupX%akosela@andykosela.com>
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El día Wednesday, June 10, 2009 a las 01:10:53PM +0200, Andy Kosela escribió: > Hi all, > > Anyone can share their experience with running FreeBSD on modern > business laptops, especially from HP or IBM. HP EliteBook, ProBook or > Compaq models would be perfect. I need Fn brightness keys to work > correctly out of the box. On my current 6715b with radeon(4) driver > it's working. On a more recent 6730b with intel(4) this is not working > unfortunately. > > I need to buy some new laptop and looking for a model with greatest > FreeBSD compatibility. Please check this database: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ Mine one is this: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=12868 running 8-CURRENT, Wifi, 1920x1200 NVIDIA 180.66 driver, ... a power-engine :-) after typing 'pkg_add xxx' the prompt just in the same eye shut re-apeared and I was asking me if the beast did something or not :-) matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD.
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