From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 11:25:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D693416A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:25:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeus.acuson.com (ac17860.acuson.com [157.226.71.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD1443D5E for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02 ([157.226.230.209]:2803 helo=mvaexch02.acuson.com) by zeus.acuson.com with esmtp (Exim 4.14) id 1AlYoo-0000Wo-3x; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:24:14 -0800 Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:16:52 -0800 Received: from Siemens.com (dhcp-46-107.acuson.com [157.226.46.107]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id VDN3H99A; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:15:34 -0800 From: Johnson David To: "Mazen S. Alzogbi" Message-ID: <4016BA5C.2050808@Siemens.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:22:04 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A903@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> In-Reply-To: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A903@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1AlYoo-0000Wo-3x*oUzqUY10KLA* cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nOOb: FreeBSD & laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:25:16 -0000 Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: > Hi, > > I am sending this to hear what everyone thinks of FreeBSD on laptops. To > be honest, I don't want to replace FreeBSD with Linux on my laptop > because of many reasons. Yet, I have to admit that I am having all > source of troubles with FreeBSD on the laptop but not on the > workstation! There is a laptop list that would be more appropriate. That said, I have a new Compaq Presario 2500 that FreeBSD-5.2 has no problems with. 4.9 (and 5.1) had problems with it, but 5.2 did not. The major difference seems to be better ACPI support in 5.2. You might want to try 5.2 to see if that solves some or all of your problems. David p.s. If your laptop is a "ACPI only" machines, as many new laptops are, then you don't want anything to do with apm. They are completely different and sometimes conflicting mechanisms.