From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 30 15:48:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from courier.netrail.net (courier.netrail.net [205.215.10.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AE337B405 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 15:48:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cschreiber@netrail.net) Received: by courier.netrail.net (Postfix, from userid 5408) id 23251C1; Sat, 30 Jun 2001 18:48:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 18:48:55 -0400 From: "Christian S ." To: Linh Pham Cc: "Jonathan M. Slivko" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best Laptop for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010630184854.Y82583@netrail.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from lplist@closedsrc.org on Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:51:19AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had a hellish time getting BSD of *any* variety on my laptop - Something that XF3.3.6 didn't like - I'm not too sure what, but I had the ATI Rage Mobility 4 Meg card - I had an IBM "i" series (From what I understand, they are legendary for the problems that they have accepting FBSD.) I had some problems with the PCMCIA slots, too. I got it to work, but I couldn't get X to work - quite frustrating. I eventually ended up having SuSE installed on it, and I keep my desktop at FBSD 4.3. :) HTH, Chrisitan On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:51:19AM -0700, Linh Pham babbled: > Delivered-To: cschreiber@netrail.net > Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:51:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Linh Pham > To: "Jonathan M. Slivko" > Cc: > Subject: Re: Best Laptop for FreeBSD? > In-Reply-To: > List-ID: > List-Archive: (Web Archive) > List-Help: (List Instructions) > List-Subscribe: > List-Unsubscribe: > X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Precedence: bulk > > 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 ---end quoted text--- -- Christian Schreiber, Netrail Network Security Engineer - Ape will not kill Ape To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message