Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 11:20:16 +0300 From: Adi Pircalabu <apircalabu@bitdefender.com> To: "Joshua" <joshual@emailengine.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [question] R3000Z + FreeBSD 6.0 or just FreeBSD in general Message-ID: <20050718112016.7b4e9b91@apircalabu.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <1121643838.14840.238646370@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1121643838.14840.238646370@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:43:58 -0700 "Joshua" <joshual@emailengine.org> 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/
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