Re: FreeBSD on laptops
Frank Mayhar <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile |
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| Organization | Exit Consulting |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 16:21 +0200, Reg Me Please wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm considering to move from Linux to FreeBSD on my main laptop. > I don't have enough time resources for the "test and try" process > I'd like to know from the community what is the status for: > 0. Core2 Duo CPUs Full support, of course. > 1. Support for modern chipsets (ICH8) Generally good support. > 2. support for power management (mostly ACPI and CPU clock freq. ) on laptops Generally good support, with some exceptions (mostly having to do with buggy ACPI, from what I understand). > 3. support for accelerated graphic cards (nVidia GeForce 8600M GT) Excellent as long as you're using i386 kernels. Amd64 kernels don't yet have the support for the nvidia drivers. > 4. support for Intel wifi (4965 AGN) No idea. I know that my Atheros AGN chipset _isn't_ supported (it's a 9000-series). > 5. support for other hardware like audio, card readers, i-Link, USB USB, good. Audio, generally good, although the new driver in -current has some buggy spots remaining. Card readers, that depends. My cardbus-attached O2Micro device isn't yet supported, although I think I saw a potential driver go by on a list recently. I don't even know what i-Link is. USB support is generally excellent. > And, of course, any advise about FreeBSD on laptops will be highly > appreciated. I never run anything else on my laptop. (Not counting work laptops, which run Linux because that's what work supports.) -- Frank Mayhar [email protected] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ http://www.zazzle.com/fmayhar* _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"