Re: FreeBSD-friendly laptops (was: laptop compatibility list)

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
>
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