Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...

Chuck Stearns <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've had generally goo experiences with 7.0 on a Gateway MT3705, except 
the ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M doesn't seem to work.  (found a "port" for 
fglrx, but haven't tried it yet...)

Earlier versions won't detect the NIC, it's a Marvell Yukon.

/cs

[email protected] wrote:
> From: Freddie Cash <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...
> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:20:17 -0700
> 
>> The Satellite line of Toshiba laptops are pretty much crap.  I've yet to 
>> find a Satellite user that likes their laptop.  Even when running Windows 
>> XP on it.  Getting non-Windows OSes running on them tends to be a 
>> frustrating endeavor.
> 
> May I introduce you to a Satellite user who likes his laptop?  I
> haven't used FreeBSD on it (though my desktop and a couple of servers
> I admin are all 6.2-STABLE), but Ubuntu Linux is basically trouble free on
> my Satellite U205.  I bought it in December and installed Ubuntu Edgy
> immediately (all hardware detected without trouble).  The only issues
> are the fingerprint reader (never bothered to try) and suspend-to-ram 
> suspend-to-disk works fine).  Very sharp screen, light weight, nice
> keyboard feel, solidly built.
> 
> I suppose this is a little off-topic since I haven't tried FreeBSD
> on it, but it's a relevant data point.
> 
> Robin Smith
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