On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Arvid Warnecke <arvid.warne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 01:11:30AM -0300, Leandro F Silva wrote: >> Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? >> Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. >> > Right now I use Mac OSX on my MacBook Pro and FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE on my > IBM/Lenovo T60 Notebook. > > The only issue I have with FreeBSD is the configuration for > suspend/resume and battery lifetime (the big battery lasts for ca. 3,5 > hours). > Everything else works fine.
Have you taken a look at this? http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption Additionally, the new timer infrastructure has and will allow for even more power saving (especially when the "tickless" functionality is implemented): http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=209371 http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=212541 Regarding the suspend/resume; it took me a while to get my Lenovo X300 to reliably (99.9% of the time) resume. I have to kldunload the USB stack to have the ports function on resume, and I still get the occasional VGA reinit lock-up, but mostly it works :) Things have been better since I moved to 9-CURRENT... > I have been thinking about FreeBSD on the Macbook Pro dual booting (I > need Mac OSX for photography software), but I am not sure if the > hardware will be supported that well. Here's an excellent place to start your research: http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleMacbook Good luck! -Brandon _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"