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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:57:58 +0200
From: "Michael L. Hostbaek" <mich@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: HP Pavillion laptop work with any version of FreeBSD?
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WOB (wayofbsd) writes:
> 
> I posted the error messages to the mobile list, and didn't get a 
> response - I guess no one has this type of laptop. 
> 
> Has anyone had any luck with any version of FreeBSD on any version of HP 
> Pavillion laptop?

Just yesterday, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-REL on the laptop of my
colleague. He owns a HP Pavillion DV1000 series.

It worked out of the box.

Though, we needed to apply a small patch to the i8xx driver, to enable
1280x768 resolution in X.

/mich