Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Murray Taylor wrote: IBM Think pads seem to go ok -- 4.8, 4.9, 4.10 I've had better luck with 5.3 on my R31 - it recognises ACPI and the 32-bit CardBus slot, amongst others. Witl laptops you really want the latest, to support their weird hardware. -- Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I was unable to get a Compaq's pccard working under FreeBSD 5.2.1 using either the new or old pccard systems. I had no problems on a Dell using FreeBSD 4.10 or 5.3. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? Available to purchase, I dunno. With older HP laptops I had no success with 5.2, but 4.10 was fine. I haven't tried 5.3 yet. When I say no success, I meant that the laptop refused to complete the boot of an installation CD. If you can get to a shop, take an install CD along with you. If you can boot up and get as far as the main menu, it'll probably be just fine. David ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I'm typing this on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 1840W running FreeBSD 5.3. Everything 'Just Worked', the only part of the X config I needed to do manually was the one-line ZAxisMapping magic to make the touchpad's scroll strip (similar to mouse wheel) work. Then again that was cutpasteable from somewhere else. Everything else pretty much just automagically worked. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ http://www.datadok.no/ http://www.nuug.no/ First, we kill all the spammers The Usenet Bard, Twice-forwarded tales ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I can tell you that my Dell C640 worked right out of the box. Xorg -configure got all my X stuff correct (I just needed to set default color depth to my personal preference). Even my wireless NIC works immediately with a dhclient wi0. The only option I needed to add to the kernel to get everything working was device sound -- ___ Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Monday 20 December 2004 04:54 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I just read about the website below at linuxtoday.com. The laptops are sold with Linspire by default (no Windows tax); but FreeBSD is one of the (ahem) other linux distros available. http://www.sub300.com/ I know nothing else about them; so I can neither recommend nor discourage doing business with them. Best of luck, Andrew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I have FreeBSD 5.3 running beautifully on a Dell Inspiron 8200. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Monday 20 December 2004 06:46 am, Tom Vilot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I have FreeBSD 5.3 running beautifully on a Dell Inspiron 8200. I have FreeBSD 5.3 running on a Dell Inspiron 3500. IIRC there weren't any problems with the install, but I had to compile in support for my cardbus and ethernet. Since it's just a 300MHz with 128MB, I didn't install xorg at all, but I know from previous experimentation that it will run a smaller wm or desktop alright (xfce4 or smaller), but KDE or Gnome run very slow. I don't really need a gui desktop on it, and it's (generally) quite fast without it. I am tinkering at getting the sound running, but it's not a priority. Haven't yet tried USB, but again it's not a priority. It works the way it is for my needs. You can probably find a used Dell in this model range for very cheap. I wouldn't go lower than the 3500, though, as lower than a 300MHz cpu might be pushing it as far as what you need. As someone else recommended, IBM Thinkpads are quite nice and will usually work, although a bit pricey. If you go that route, try to find a good used one. - jt ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:09AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I was unable to get a Compaq's pccard working under FreeBSD 5.2.1 using either the new or old pccard systems. I had no problems on a Dell using FreeBSD 4.10 or 5.3. Not following up to Andrew, in particular, but to point out the ...a Dell (or Gateway or HP or whatever)... is not very exact; and it may be helpful to indicate a model and /or number for any recommendation. For instance: http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/notebooks?c=uscs=19l=ens=dhs shows several possible notebooks. Let's take this one: Inspiron 1150, with various features, including: Memory 256MB Shared DDR SDRAM, 1 Dimm which means that video fills its needs from system memory. Now, the issue here is that for lower end laptops that use shared memory and the Intel integrated graphics chip with a bios lock on memory allocation, you may end up w/o the ability to display in 1024x768 in X. So it may pay for anyone to check to see that the available memory is sufficient to provide a minimum comfortable resolution. Another example: http://products.gateway.com/products/GConfig/prodDetails.asp?system_id=m275xseg=hm Midway down, you'll see this: Integrated Intel. Extreme Graphics 2 What does that mean, WRT resolution in X? I can't find out, easily (it's a JavaScript thing). It is likely that it has enough memory for 1024x768 or even a finer resolution; but it would be a good idea to make sure, IMO. In short, I would recommend that you get as much detail from the vendor as you can; and don't assume that because it is a modern machine and some models in a brand do work very well with FreeBSD that any given model will work well with FreeBSD. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? The FreeBSD Laptop Compatability List at: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ will give you some information from about 450 other FreeBSD + laptop users. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
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installing bsd on a laptop
hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 1:53:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I've had good results with Dell laptops. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpNNpJYVcUDD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 17:55, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Monday, 20 December 2004 at 1:53:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I've had good results with Dell laptops. Greg IBM Think pads seem to go ok -- 4.8, 4.9, 4.10 mjt -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer - Bytecraft Systems Entertainment P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 M: +61 417 319 256 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com --- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --- ***This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal.*** ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installing bsd on a laptop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? IBM Thinkpads are fine also. But try before u buy, whatever your decision. Take a live cd (http://www.freesbie.org/) with you and test it as much as you can. -- Regards, Karel Miklav ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
