Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 20:07:50 -0800 From: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD-friendly laptops (was: laptop compatibility list) Message-ID: <3E72A716.4070607@mac.com>
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I had talked with Giorgos Keramidas of the FreeBSD team some months back about working up some more documentation for mobile FreeBSD use. Sadly, real life has intruded, as it often does, and I've made very little progress. My idea was simply to use http-upload to take kernel and Xfree86 configs for a given model and let that serve as reference material for anyone who comes across a given model and wants to get started using it. From that, one could infer some compatibility info about video chipsets, device controllers, et al, but knowing that a given set of config files were known to work on a given machine is a good start. With each upload, there would be an option to add comments about the particular hardware, what worked and what didn't, but given that most FreeBSD users are pretty self-sufficient and we have these excellent mailing lists, the config files would work in most cases. Would that be useful as a first step? I have my config files posted on my personal site and they'll been accessed a few times: that seems encouraging to me. -- Paul Beard <http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/movabletype/>; whois -h whois.networksolutions.com ha=pb202 I must have slipped a disk -- my pack hurts To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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