From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 04:01:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 B85C716A41F for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:01:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.dean@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4E343D45 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:01:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dave.dean@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z6so610978nzd for ; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:01:34 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nG6hV7xZwVDDTzl0liqrGWCltubIgNDrJE3vYl9c7yWOPhm5lvl3Tvgg4XuIMIp2NM2sXMuhuE6q0MwXFhPrMKh+BDTiGMz3/RYsOvwLb9YRSvJlyyjD6b/BKwmWoB9XwIjJaxAkMUstrU+ynNKL8ly1jQ/Qt/eF8yx/Fzo61c4= Received: by 10.35.36.13 with SMTP id o13mr351009pyj; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:01:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.36.14 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:01:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <163a4b210603132001j18a106e2xa693212db7cb11f4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:01:04 +1100 From: "David Dean" To: "Norberto Meijome" In-Reply-To: <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060313103240.ie1bevcdijs4coko@webmail.meijome.net> <20060314113412.3470fde5@localhost> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What laptop do you recommend? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 04:01:35 -0000 mm, well I run a Dell 700m .. the widescreen 12" one with built-in wireless= . I'm using the fantastic iwi-firmware (so yes, the wireless works), and 855patch to get 1280x800 (the native res of the lcd) working. I have a very quick document on what I did to get that going at http://bratdot.info/cub1cle/projects/700m/ Accelerated graphics have never worked, but I just run Konsoles and Kmail .. so I dont miss it. The winmodem doesnt work, but thats about it. I havent missed anything else that didnt work 'out of the box' on 6. I ran 5.4 on there for a while as well, and the only thing I had to add was UHCI to the generic kernel (so I could do backups before the heat-death of the universe). YMMV, but they are cheap, small and light. -David On 3/14/06, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 > freebsd@meijome.net wrote: > > > hi everyone, > > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > > > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) > > PATA / SATA with no problems > > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, > > touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course > > > > Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. > > > > >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do > > >DELLs > > (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, > > but I don't think they are so well supported. > > > > Thanks in advance for any advice you can share :) > > > > Best regards, > > Beto > > What about DELL laptops? any model I should stick to? Thinkpads are a > bit pricey for me atm. (Greg Lehey i think was using dells... could > well be wrong...) > > Alternatively, has anyone got a model of *new* Toshiba laptops > fully working ? > > > thx > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > -- David Dean +61 402 55 6068 dave.dean@gmail.com