Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:07:07 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Joe Demeny <jd1987@borozo.com>, Fred C <fred@bsdhost.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> Subject: Re: Laptop advice Message-ID: <20080324090707.GA5568@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEIFCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <486D09FD-3808-4627-A90D-1E343B76122E@bsdhost.net> <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEIFCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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El día Monday, March 24, 2008 a las 12:29:16AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt escribió: > Unfortunately, it is quite common for laptop vendors to write specs > that use different names than industry standard for the components, > so it is difficult to figure this out in advance. > > What you want to do is get yourself a FreeBSD boot CD then go > visit a computer vendor that has display models. Do not order a > laptop online. Visit a brick and mortar vendor, and try booting > fbsd on each of the display models. A good way is also to let it boot a Knoppix boot CD / DVD which is able to detect nearly all hardware used to assemble the laptop. Then take the /var/log/messages output of this and check it against the FreeBSD hardware notes. matthias (running FreeBSD 7.0-R on laptop :-)) -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail?
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