Re: What laptop do you recommend?
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:32:40 -0300 > From: [email protected] > Sender: [email protected] > > hi everyone, > I'm looking for a new, gruntier laptop. What laptop is known to work > WELL with freeBSD? e.g.: > > ACPI with no problems (and as many features as possible) > PATA / SATA with no problems > all other basic stuff (graphics, NIC, Wireless g, sound, > touchpad ,etc ) should work too, of course > > Looking into either Intel duo Core or AMD64 chips. > > >From what I've read, IBMs seem to have quite good support, so do DELLs > (though they seem chunkier than other laptops). I usually get Toshiba, > but I don't think they are so well supported. I have a new Lenovo (IBM) T43 (266875U) that is working well. If you get an integrated A/B/G card, it's Athros based and works very well with FreeBSD and the wpa_supplicant. The internal Winmodem is useless, though. The GE is a Broadcom which works well. Graphics is an ATI Radeon, so you will want to have Radeontool to turn it off. ACPI has no problems and, if you load acpi_ibm, it provides lots of features. Sound is snd_ich and works fine. I disable the touchpad, so I really can't say much about it. If the touchpad is disabled, it has a 3 button mouse. I have not been successful with a suspend/resume cycle while running X. It seems to suspend, but never resumes when in X. If I'm on a vty, it does resume, but the display characters are garbage. "vidcontrol mode 80x25" fixes it, though. I can probably stick this into rc.resume. It's only a 2GHz Pentium-M, though. The new T60s are Core Duo systems, but we don't have one, yet. One was just ordered last week, so I hope to get to play with one soon. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"