Re: Suitability of Sony VAIO laptop for FreeBSD?

Rhian Resnick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I run 5.3 on a Sony PCG-V505EX. Runs well, with some ACPI support. My
previous laptop a PCG-R505DL ran FreeBSD but needed a crow bar to
install.

- Rhian

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:54 -0500, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Thomas Beer <[email protected]> probably said:
> > I ran 4.x for years on a Vaio PCG-Z600NE serving me well. Ok, audio had 
> > a bypass after two years, but that was the only problem. 
> 
> In my experience, since that model was available, VAIOs have become
> less suitable for FreeBSD. No working APM support, ACPI not happy,
> many devices without drivers...
> 
> When my Z gave up the ghost I switched to a thinkpad.
> 
> P.


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