Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 02:09:53 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Greg Finn <finn@ISI.EDU> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell precision M70 ... Message-ID: <4249EE51.5040204@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <42483DAB.2000303@isi.edu> References: <42483DAB.2000303@isi.edu>
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Greg Finn wrote:
>
> We are considering bying a few of these hefty laptops for kernel
> development
> work. The FLCL has nothing to say about these. Does anyone have advice
> regarding FreeBSD compatibility and this laptop?
Does the NVIDIA-driver also work with the OpenGL cards?
I've had quite good luck getting my Fujitsu-Siemens E8010 to work with
FreeBSD 5.3 (S3 even worked). I needed to run VMware4, so I resorted to
SuSE 9.2 for the moment. I hope to be able to try out 5.4 and a CURRENT
snapshot later this month.
The HighEnd-versions (Celsius Mobile H210 and H230) are even "more or
less" (i.e.: on request) SuSE or RedHat certified, which could mean
better compatibility with FreeBSD, too.
The M70 only lists XP.
The ATI-cards of the higher-end Lifebook and Celsius Mobile systems may
be problem, though (I've only got a i865-gfx - I don't want to play
games and I didn't want to pay the price-tag for something I don't use).
Can't you just order one, see how it works out and return it in case it
doesn't? Depending on how large your order ("few") is, you may be able
to cut a special deal.
cheers,
Rainer
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