From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Mar 15 7:56:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9323637B404 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:56:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp804.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp804.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0747D43F85 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:56:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fscked@pacbell.net) Received: from adsl-67-120-107-6.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO pacbell.net) (fscked@pacbell.net@67.120.107.6 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2003 15:56:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3E734CFC.5BBBA6F1@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:55:41 -0800 From: richard childers / kg6hac X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: paul beard Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptops (was: laptop compatibility list) References: <3E72A716.4070607@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There's already an XFree86 config library out there somewhere, FYI ... (I have nothing against replication.) -- richard paul beard wrote: > I had talked with Giorgos Keramidas of the FreeBSD team some > months back about working up some more documentation for mobile > FreeBSD use. Sadly, real life has intruded, as it often does, and > I've made very little progress. > > My idea was simply to use http-upload to take kernel and Xfree86 > configs for a given model and let that serve as reference material > for anyone who comes across a given model and wants to get started > using it. From that, one could infer some compatibility info about > video chipsets, device controllers, et al, but knowing that a > given set of config files were known to work on a given machine is > a good start. > > With each upload, there would be an option to add comments about > the particular hardware, what worked and what didn't, but given > that most FreeBSD users are pretty self-sufficient and we have > these excellent mailing lists, the config files would work in most > cases. > > Would that be useful as a first step? I have my config files > posted on my personal site and they'll been accessed a few times: > that seems encouraging to me. > > -- > Paul Beard > > whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 > > I must have slipped a disk -- my pack hurts > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message