From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 02:13:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C891F16A421 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:13:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@chillt.de) Received: from dd2718.kasserver.com (dd2718.kasserver.com [81.209.184.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 373B543D46 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:13:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@chillt.de) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dslb-084-060-104-037.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.60.104.37]) by dd2718.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B03D1EC53; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:13:40 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4383D05E.1090904@chillt.de> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:13:50 +0100 From: Bartosz Fabianowski User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051106) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> <200511231238.06590.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200511231238.06590.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Graham North Subject: Re: Laptop choices X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 02:13:49 -0000 > I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). Well, not quite yet. X.Org 6.8 doesn't have any 3D support for modern Radeon chips and the forthcoming 6.9/7.0 will have "experimental" support. But 2D is working just fine (I am typing this on an Inspiron 8600C with ATI Radeon). > I'd try 6.0 myself. Seconded. So many things work better in 6.0 than they did in 5.4. Also, getting wireless to work is much easier - and WPA is available, while in 5.4, it is not. - Bartosz