Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:45:17 +0400 From: "Mazen S. Alzogbi" <freebsd@mazenalzogbi.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: nOOb: FreeBSD & laptop Message-ID: <1691D8C9A2220149A8AF30209B5D0EB4A6A903@sc3.shuaacapital.co.ae>
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Hi, I am sending this to hear what everyone thinks of FreeBSD on laptops. To be honest, I don't want to replace FreeBSD with Linux on my laptop because of many reasons. Yet, I have to admit that I am having all source of troubles with FreeBSD on the laptop but not on the workstation! To be more specific, sound doesn't work (yes, I did recompile the kernel with "device apm" and the conflict happens in IRQ 10 which for some reason many drivers are trying to use and only one of them is succeeding), external mouse is giving me troubles (hanging sometimes), touch pad the same (not working) with KDE or GNOME, internal modem (winmodem) is no working, a bit slow (2.4 GHz with 512 MB RAM machine!!). On the other hand, I cannot describe how neat the same OS (4.9-RELEASE) is working on the desktop, simply, everything is working fast and the system is reliable. Do you care to share me your experience? Thanks. Cheers, Mazen www.MazenAlzogbi.com
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