From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 8 6:31:29 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E683837B401 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 06:31:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.401.cx (rambo.401.cx [80.65.205.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A3943FA3 for ; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 06:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.401.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h18ETYP8007344; Sat, 8 Feb 2003 15:29:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Message-ID: <3E4514C2.9040707@401.cx> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 15:31:30 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: stan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop sugestions? References: <200302071615.h17GFdhf011497@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Tuc wrote: >>>Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the >>>hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care >>>every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to >>>put unuseful keyboards on laptops. >>>Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it >>>at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg. >>> >> >>Are all it's devices (screen network, modem et all) well supported under >>FreeBSD? >> > > I have had an 8200 since April last year, hard drive went on it > last week so I had to re-install 4.7 from scratch. I use the built in ethernet > (xl0) and have used the docking station ethernet (xl1). I didn't get the > built in modem, since it was a WINMODEM. I mistakenly bought a Cardbus > PCMCIA modem, so I couldn't use that. I ended up with an IBM X-jack PCMCIA > from my old Thinkpad. I got it with the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card in it. > The first incarnation I used the "nv" drivers, this time around I'm using the > Nvidia supplied drivers. I'm running in 1400x1050 with 122 pixel clock, > 64.89 H sync, 59.98 V sync. *snip* I use a Dell Latitude C840 that works great. All I had to do to get everything working was to install the nVidia drivers. X looks great, I have sound, and I can use the docking station without problems. I have not tried the built-in modem since I only use ethernet, but if you want to make sure I can give it a try and let you know what happens. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message