From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 18 11:37:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21164 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:37:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kai.nectar.com (kai.nectar.com [204.27.67.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20874 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 11:35:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@kai.nectar.com) Received: from kai.nectar.com (localhost.nectar.com [127.0.0.1]) by kai.nectar.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA09950 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:02:58 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802181902.NAA09950@kai.nectar.com> From: Jacques Vidrine To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Laptop opinions! Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:02:58 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everyone, I seem to recall scanning by several emails regarding problems getting FreeBSD to work on IBM ThinkPads. I'm about to purchase a new laptop, and I would like to hear about peoples' experience with ThinkPads and Compaq Armadas, or others if you feel strongly about them :-) In particular, I'm looking at a ThinkPad 560X... For what it is worth, I currently have a Texas Instruments (Acer really) laptop that works fairly well under FreeBSD, with only a couple of annoynaces: (1) there is some BIOS PC Card support called ``CardBus'', that prevents PC Cards from working under FreeBSD when enabled and prevents PC Cards from working under Windows 95 when disabled; (2) I can't seem to figure out how to turn off ``clicking'' on the built-in TouchPad ... very annoying when typing under X ... Thanks for any input! Jacques Vidrine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message