Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 13:18:31 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Handbook section for laptops? Message-ID: <20010817131831.A26007@lpt.ens.fr>
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I just spent some time setting up FreeBSD on my laptop. I had to go through some pain (and I think most newbies would have just given up) and it occurred to me that a section dedicated to laptops would be useful. Of course, I can only contribute information applicable to my own machine and I know very little of laptops in general. But if I make the start, maybe others can add on to it and it may later become a useful handbook chapter? Or is someone already working on this? The main problem areas are: X11 -- while the card is often detected without problem, setting up the monitor section correctly is tricky. The standard XFree86 config programs only give options for CRT monitors so it's not clear what is applicable to a laptop. I could write up what I did, with borrowings from linux laptop sites. PCMCIA -- this gave me some trouble (though it works fine now) and doesn't seem to be covered in the handbook. I could borrow basic info from the manpages and write up the specific things I needed to do. Modems -- usually internal modems are winmodems, but how does one find out? If I try to test it with ppp, I just lock up the machine and only a hard reboot cures it. apm -- I haven't got it working properly yet. Haven't investigated much since it's low priority right now, but some handbook information would be nice. - Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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