From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 08:18:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BD616A41F for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:18:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from apircalabu@bitdefender.com) Received: from mail.bitdefender.com (ns.bitdefender.com [217.156.83.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DDA43D45 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:18:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from apircalabu@bitdefender.com) Received: (qmail 23147 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Jul 2005 11:08:58 +0300 Received: from apircalabu.dsd.ro (10.10.15.22) by mail.bitdefender.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 18 Jul 2005 11:08:58 +0300 Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:20:16 +0300 From: Adi Pircalabu To: "Joshua" Message-ID: <20050718112016.7b4e9b91@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <1121643838.14840.238646370@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1121643838.14840.238646370@webmail.messagingengine.com> Organization: BitDefender X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.11 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: 1.1.4 049000040111AAAAAAEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender Qmail 1.6.2 on mail.bitdefender.com X-BitDefender-Spam: No (13) Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [question] R3000Z + FreeBSD 6.0 or just FreeBSD in general X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:18:30 -0000 On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:43:58 -0700 "Joshua" wrote: > Hi, I have an R3000Z, and have used freebsd 5.4 both i386, and amd64 > versions on it. I've recenlty migrated back to a linux distro of > choice because although I found FreeBSD to be a superior OS in just > about every other aspect, I found (as expected from reading about this > laptop+freebsd all over the place) this laptop not so well supported. Hi, I'm running 5.4 for i386 on a NX9105 and I hope to switch to 6.0 as soon as I'll have some time to play with it. NX9105 is very simillar to R3000Z, and I find it, after some DSDT patching, very FreeBSD friendly, excepting suspend issues. Can you give some details about the problems encountered? > I'm wondering if its expected that the machine will be better > supported in 6.0, as I'd love to go back to fbsd. I've also read that > the problem is actually the BIOS is just broken, if so why isnt it > being fixed? :) It has a buggy BIOS indeed, but you can workaround it somehow. As a side note, I think HP released a BIOS update for NX9105, but the system run pretty well right now, is very stable, so I won't need this update in the next future (I think). There are also many Web resources available. Personally, I think one of the best sites found is http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/ It contains also many helpful pointers. -- Adi Pircalabu (PGP Key ID 0x04329F5E) -- This message was scanned for spam and viruses by BitDefender. For more information please visit http://www.bitdefender.com/