Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:55:41 -0800 From: richard childers / kg6hac <fscked@pacbell.net> To: paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptops (was: laptop compatibility list) Message-ID: <3E734CFC.5BBBA6F1@pacbell.net> References: <3E72A716.4070607@mac.com>
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There's already an XFree86 config library out there somewhere, FYI ... (I have nothing against replication.) -- richard paul beard wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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