From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 15:11:17 2003 Return-Path: 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 9CE8416A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:11:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCEF043D45 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:11:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id 3592A3077A; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:11:15 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 612FD1D1DC5; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:11:17 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16371.22421.274169.994992@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 18:11:17 -0500 To: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20031227.123241.23386608.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200312271240.hBRCe3ZF073646@flip.jhs.private> <20031227.123241.23386608.imp@bsdimp.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid cc: mobile@freebsd.org cc: jhs@tower.berklix.net Subject: Re: Least supported laptop for FreeBSD under $1k X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:11:17 -0000 I'll nominate the Inspiron 1100 from Dell. Dell ACPI never works out-of-the-box (on any model I've tried). The mouse on the 1100 doesn't even work until basic fixes are made to the ACPI code. Suspend doesn't work (not even S1). XFree86 doesn't work without a hack. The default is only 840K of video memory. The hack sets this amount to some arbitrary amount. So X works, but could use some hacking. It's the intel 845 chipset. The ethernet is bfe (recently added driver) and works. IIRC, you can have an internal mini-pci card installed (not positive on that). Dell's USB bluetooth (which is internal) doesn't appear to be supported. There are interrupts that are flagged as spurrious. I think the IDE controller causes them ... but it doesn't fall back into PIO mode... so I dunno what's up. Sound is supported, 3D X isn't well supported. Good news is 1100's are really cheap. Dave.. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================