Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've seen that Fn key, but don't know what it is for. What? you press
it, then follow with the integers [ 1, 2, 3 ... ]? At any rate, maybe
you can remap the key with ~/.xmodmaprc.
They're used to access keys which won't physically fit on a laptop
Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Re your original issue, can you get any mileage out of using acpi_ibm,
devd and this post and/or the other one it references:
The laptop in question does not run FreeBSD. I gave up running FreeBSD
on any sort of desktop or laptop computer years ago.
DES
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martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have always thought that Fn key in left most bottom corner of the
keyboard is, especially for programmers, a very bad idea. :-(
Seconded. Worse still, on my Lenovo T60, if the Fn key is held down
longer than a fraction of a second, it generates an input
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:06:29PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have always thought that Fn key in left most bottom corner of the
keyboard is, especially for programmers, a very bad idea. :-(
Seconded. Worse still, on my Lenovo T60, if the Fn key
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:06:29PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have always thought that Fn key in left most bottom corner of the
keyboard is, especially for programmers, a very bad idea. :-(
Seconded. Worse
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:06:29PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have always thought that Fn key in left most bottom corner of the
keyboard is,
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 13:31 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:06:20PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Gary Kline wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:06:29PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
martinko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have always thought
Matt Olander wrote:
On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:45 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking about
iX Systems's made-for-BSD
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Achim Patzner wrote:
Drivers? Who cares. Serial port? Just plug in an USB-to-serial.
You've obviously never used a USB-to-serial adapter. Are you aware of
the fact that there is no serial device class as part of the USB
specification? (Quite a
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 20:26 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:45 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
Please define comfortable. I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty
comfortably on my HP
On 2008-Jul-27 17:23:46 -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we'd need a method of remembering what file handles were
connected to so that they could be reopened (in this, I envision some type
of text string... maybe a URI/URL). As a bonus, this would give us process
migration
And if you go with Lenovo, be aware that their T60/T60p/T61/T61p series
(and possibly the X-series) are known to sport very high temperatures.
Some people have reported temperatures of nearly 90C on their GPU (when
idling), which has a direct effect on the overall temperature of the CPU
(due
Matt Olander wrote:
On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix,
sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:13:03AM +0300, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
Matt Olander wrote:
On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix,
sigh,
so
Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:13:03AM +0300, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
Matt Olander wrote:
On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has
El día Thursday, July 31, 2008 a las 11:37:16AM +0300, Stefan Lambrev escribió:
FreeBSD has support for webcams? News to me.
multimedia/pwcbsd
multimedia/linux-gspca-kmod
multimedia/linux-ov511-kmod
Though I never heard for someone using successfully his webcam with
skype2 ;)
Am 31.07.2008 um 02:45 schrieb Carlos A. M. dos Santos:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to break that habit more than once
but right now the only comfortable way of running FreeBSD on a laptop
is VMware Fusion on a Mac. Reading this entire thread
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Achim Patzner wrote:
Drivers? Who cares. Serial port? Just plug in an USB-to-serial.
You've obviously never used a USB-to-serial adapter. Are you aware of
the fact that there is no serial device class as part of the USB
specification? (Quite a great
Am 31.07.2008 um 12:08 schrieb Jeremy Chadwick:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:17:54AM +0200, Achim Patzner wrote:
Drivers? Who cares. Serial port? Just plug in an USB-to-serial.
You've obviously never used a USB-to-serial adapter.
Wrong; I'm using them all the time. Initial kneading of serious
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:07:31PM -0700, Matt Olander wrote:
On Jul 30, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
Matt Olander wrote:
http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html
Hi everyone! I actually had our prototype of this laptop up at the
OSCON show in Portland and it was
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:48:02PM +0200, Achim Patzner wrote:
I don't care.
I can see that; thanks for summing it up.
The amount of rhetoric in these two paragraphs is amazing; I literally
cannot tell if you're trolling with anti-FreeBSD propaganda, or if
you're trolling with pro-FreeBSD
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:26:18AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
Hi,
FreeBSD has support for webcams? News to me.
Luigi Rizzo was (is?) working on webcam support:
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/usb-cameras.html
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Regards,
Richard.
/* Homo Sapiens non urinat in ventum */
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:45 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking about
iX Systems's made-for-BSD
Jeremy Chadwick schrieb:
You just did it again -- anti-FreeBSD propaganda and pro-FreeBSD
propaganda in a single paragraph, followed by an oddly-skewed
server-to-desktop comparison, something about computer cosmetics, then a
strange comment about the beastie/Chuck which seems to be negative
On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 12:48 +0200, Achim Patzner wrote:
Wrong on both counts. I'm just using the appropriate tools for the jobs
that need to be done. And on the desktop FreeBSD just plain sucks in
comparison to Mac OS.
The problem is that you are expressing your opinion as if it is a Basic
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:17:54 +0200 Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Getting X to run on the *censored* *even more censorship*? No problem,
Like you say, it depends on what you want from X. Leopard's X was
tolerable. Tiger broke full screen mode, and Apple doesn't have the
resources to fix
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Tom Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:45 -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
Please define comfortable. I've been running FreeBSD 7.0 pretty
comfortably on my HP nx6320 for several months now. I never attempted
to use neither Bluetooth
Matt Olander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[re http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html]
Will it be available with a big FreeBSD logo on the lid? :)
DES
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Am 30.07.2008 um 15:17 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
Matt Olander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[re http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html]
Will it be available with a big FreeBSD logo on the lid? :)
If you need something like that, a partially eaten white
apple would be much more
Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Matt Olander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[re http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html]
Will it be available with a big FreeBSD logo on the lid? :)
If you need something like that, a partially
Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking
about
iX Systems's made-for-BSD laptop.
The thread started with someone asking for a mobile computer that
would support FreeBSD sufficiently and nobody came up with something
right now the only comfortable way of running FreeBSD on a laptop is
VMware Fusion on a Mac.
It depends on what you consider to be comfortable. My primary machine is
an old Dell Inspiron 6000 (running the RELENG_7 branch) and the only
hardware compatibility issue I've ever had was that
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:31:10PM -0400, L Campbell wrote:
It depends on what you consider to be comfortable. My primary machine is
an old Dell Inspiron 6000 (running the RELENG_7 branch) and the only
hardware compatibility issue I've ever had was that suspend/hibernate
doesn't work (display
From: Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:20:28 +0200
Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking
about
iX Systems's made-for-BSD laptop.
The thread started
2008/7/30 Matt Olander [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
Maybe you can wait for this:
http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html
Hi everyone! I actually had our prototype of this laptop up at the OSCON
show in Portland and it was pretty well
Matt Olander wrote:
http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html
Hi everyone! I actually had our prototype of this laptop up at the OSCON
show in Portland and it was pretty well received.
Everything works for the most part although we're still tweaking some
things for ACPI.
I'll
On Jul 30, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
Matt Olander wrote:
http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html
Hi everyone! I actually had our prototype of this laptop up at the
OSCON show in Portland and it was pretty well received.
Everything works for the most part although
0n Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:04:38PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 04:31:10PM -0400, L Campbell wrote:
It depends on what you consider to be comfortable. My primary machine
is
an old Dell Inspiron 6000 (running the RELENG_7 branch) and the only
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:25:04AM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
vbetool post?
Is vbetool in ports ? I cant find it mentioned anywhere in INDEX-*.
Can't find it either. ENOFREEBSD :)
http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/vbetool/
Joerg
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 at 18:35 -, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
2008/7/30 Matt Olander [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
Maybe you can wait for this:
http://www.ixsystems.com/products/bsd-laptop.html
Any chances it will be available with trackpoint
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Achim Patzner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am 30.07.2008 um 18:40 schrieb Dag-Erling Smørgrav:
I don't understand what Macs have to do with this - we're talking about
iX Systems's made-for-BSD laptop.
The thread started with someone asking for a mobile computer
On Jul 25, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix,
sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions
from
this list (cc'd
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After reading all the replies I'm actually taking your suggestion and
going with Fujitsu, specifically the E8420. I'm getting the NVidia
option and I'll be running in i386 mode until FreeBSD can handle the
nvidia
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 05:23:46PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
That said, an OS-level suspend-to-disk would be an awesome summer-of-code
project.
I don't think it is feasible as SoC project without previous knowledge
and interaction with at least the ACPI suspend-to-RAM code (or
alternative
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 05:23:46PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
That said, an OS-level suspend-to-disk would be an awesome summer-of-code
project.
I don't think it is feasible as SoC project without previous
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 18:02 -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Frank Mayhar wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from
this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I
If cost is not a big problem, then IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Series (I prefer
T-series) is the best from my past experiences. And you may check
following
As someone who used (and use) 360, 701C, T30, T42p, X60 and T61p, I
wholeheartedly agree with past experiences... with past being a
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:51:35PM +0800, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
If cost is not a big problem, then IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad Series (I prefer
T-series) is the best from my past experiences. And you may check
following
As someone who used (and use) 360, 701C, T30, T42p, X60 and T61p,
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm buying a new computer, what should I buy?
Buy whatever suits your needs, and feels comfortable for you.
With regards to OS compatibility, this is a difficult one. Googling to
see what other people have
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 01:36:37PM +0300, Aggelidis Nikos wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm buying a new computer, what should I buy?
Buy whatever suits your needs, and feels comfortable for you.
With regards to OS compatibility,
On 2008-Jul-25 13:36:37 +0300, Aggelidis Nikos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From my perspective freebsd should advertise(*) the laptops that
work with it, out of the box, so that new users {like me} know what to
buy;
Who do you suggest is going to do this? Buying one of every type of
laptop,
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:00:38PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
Successive generations of laptops have become less and less
free-OS-friendly.
This is simply wrong. Most laptops ship either with Ati or Intel
chipset. Both tend to be well supported. With a bit care, you will get
wpi as wireless
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
And if you go with Lenovo, be aware that their T60/T60p/T61/T61p series (and
possibly the X-series) are known to sport very high temperatures. Some
people have reported temperatures of nearly 90C on their GPU (when idling),
which has a direct
How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron
1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running
FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE
and some googling around show that wireless, video and audio are supported.
//rk
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N
and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD
smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE and some
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 08:35:44PM +0300, Razmig K wrote:
How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron
1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running
FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of 7.0-RELEASE
and some googling
Zaphod Beeblebrox a écrit :
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron
1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of
running FreeBSD smoothly? A
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N
and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Frank Mayhar wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from
this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't
read -mobile).
I haven't played
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:34:32 -0500, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from
this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't
read
IBM Z series, my Z60M Titanium, runs great and still actually looks brand
new being 2+ years old
the X, T and Z series laptops are all decent, i cant say on quality, im
still using the one i got almost
three years ago with no issues. 1680x1050 on a 15'4 wide wcreen is nice
also. I also have an
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from
this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't
read -mobile).
My criteria:
* 3D acceleration.
* MiniPCI wireless (don't
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from
this list (cc'd to hackers for the exposure, I know everyone doesn't
read
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:39:22PM +0800, Zamri Besar wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from
this list
On Thu, July 24, 2008 17:21, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:39:22PM +0800, Zamri Besar wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix,
sigh,
so it's time to replace it.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Nenhum_de_Nos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Thu, July 24, 2008 17:21, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:39:22PM +0800, Zamri Besar wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 22:39 +0800, Zamri Besar wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My old Dell Inspiron 5160 has developed problems that I can't fix, sigh,
so it's time to replace it. I'm hoping for some good suggestions from
this list (cc'd to
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