Re: Notebook recommendations
Oliver Fromme <[email protected]>
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Christopher Hilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Gateway it's time get something new. I'm looking for recommendations. I've bought a Samsung X20-XVM 1600-V. It's not expensive and works very well with FreeBSD (at least for me). > XGA graphics at a minimum of 1280 pixels horizontal and 960 > pixels vertical. 1400x1050 is perfect It even has a little more: 1440x1080. > Pentium M processor for battery life 1.6 GHz ~ 2.0 GHz Pentium-M (Centrino) 1.6 GHz. I think they also have variants with other processors. > Ability to do 3D Video acceleration would be a plus but isn't > strictly necessary. XDAMAGE would be a double plus. It has i915 intel graphics, and 3D video acceleration works perfectly fine with 6-stable. > A real serial port is a plus as I occasionally have to boot the > odd sun workstation. It doesn't have a serial port, like most notebooks today. However, you can buy the optional docking station, which does have a serial port. Or use a USB-serial adapter (if you can find one which is supported by FreeBSD). Here's output from dmesg, Xorg.log and other information: http://www.secnetix.de/~olli/dmesg/centaur/ Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"