From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 02:45:52 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 4CB7916A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 02:45:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuba.globat.com (cuba.globat.com [216.193.201.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0E443D5F for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 02:45:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@mazenalzogbi.com) Received: from tonga.globat.com (tonga.inside.globat.com [10.1.1.31]) by cuba.globat.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with SMTP id i0QBfUWM017535 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 03:41:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@mazenalzogbi.com) Received: (qmail 32758 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2004 10:45:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MAZEN) (217.165.74.178) by tonga.globat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2004 10:45:48 -0000 From: "Mazen S. Alzogbi" To: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:45:17 +0400 Message-ID: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A903@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: 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: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:45:52 -0000 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! To be more specific, sound doesn't work (yes, I did recompile the kernel with "device apm" and the conflict happens in IRQ 10 which for some reason many drivers are trying to use and only one of them is succeeding), external mouse is giving me troubles (hanging sometimes), touch pad the same (not working) with KDE or GNOME, internal modem (winmodem) is no working, a bit slow (2.4 GHz with 512 MB RAM machine!!). On the other hand, I cannot describe how neat the same OS (4.9-RELEASE) is working on the desktop, simply, everything is working fast and the system is reliable. Do you care to share me your experience? Thanks. Cheers, Mazen www.MazenAlzogbi.com