Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:17:07PM +0400, Dmitry Gorbik wrote: As for me, I have never had problems with running FreeBSD on Sony VAIO laptops. . . . except for exploding batteries, of course. /me ducks. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Patrick J. LoPresti: Emacs

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want to buy a laptop). So anyone have realworld advice

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Steve Franks wrote: What's the difference between the T, A, R models (if you know) Thanks, Steve On 9/24/07, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want

Re: anyone have a favorite laptop?

2007-09-24 Thread Arend P. van der Veen
We have used Thinkpads for a long time. I am currently using a T60. Never had any problems. Predrag Punosevac wrote: Steve Franks wrote: The freebsd laptop page is a nice resource, but it's a bit heavy on specifics (i.e. I have a laptop I want to install on), not so good generally (want

dmesg: this is a bug [ath pccard... ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop]

2007-08-27 Thread Steve Franks
: update: Danger Will Robinson dmesg [ath pccard... ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop] To: User Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org update: several minutes after I pulled the ath0 out, I got a dmesg reading: cbb0: Danger Will Robinson: Resource left allocated

Re: dmesg: this is a bug [ath pccard... ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop]

2007-08-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
Steve Franks wrote: I sent this out over the weekend to no replies. Since dmesg specifically states this is a bug, I assume someone would want to know about it. I can reproduce the problem. Steve Hi Steve. Perhaps you might have more success sending this to freebsd-hackers or

ath pccard ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop

2007-08-25 Thread Steve Franks
So, I don't have any dmesg, because I don't get one at all with my ath0 card that I'm currently typing this on my old dell 600mhz laptop. I also have a wi0 card that works on the 600mhz machine, but it gives a freeze on the new system, and when you remove it, you get cbb0 ready never happened

update: Danger Will Robinson dmesg [ath pccard... ok on 6.1 600mhz laptop, same card *no* dmesg at all on 6.2 hp laptop]

2007-08-25 Thread Steve Franks
Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I don't have any dmesg, because I don't get one at all with my ath0 card that I'm currently typing this on my old dell 600mhz laptop. I also have a wi0 card that works on the 600mhz machine, but it gives a freeze on the new system, and when you remove it, you

MSK Driver -- Unable to get it working on laptop

2007-08-25 Thread Mak Kolybabi
I've been trying to get FreeBSD -CURRENT installed on my laptop for several days now. Although most things work fine, I cannot get my ethernet card to function. I have searched for similar issues on the web and mailing list archives and found nothing. The card identifies as: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0

Laptop compat : dell vostro 1700

2007-08-24 Thread Olivier GARNIER
Hi, I wonder if someone has already tested FreeBSD on Dell VOSTRO laptop. In particulary, Vostro 1700. If you have done it please fil in http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ Thks, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Problem with cardbus cards being recognized in my laptop

2007-08-21 Thread heatonjmark
Hi, folks, I was wondering if I could get some advice on a problem I'm having getting cardbus cards recognized by my laptop (HP zv6000) running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE 0. If I insert a card into the cardbus slot it the insertion is not recognized by the system. There is no trace that anything even

freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about installing on a desktop by booting from floppies. THank you!! TFC

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about installing on a desktop

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
no, i dont have floppy... TFC On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Joe Holden
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: no, i dont have floppy... TFC On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Eric Crist
On Jun 20, 2007, at 9:39 AMJun 20, 2007, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-06-20 10:35, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:35:16AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread DAve
PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and floppy, but has win2000 installed. How can I install linux and freebsd on it? My experience is about installing

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Olivier Certner
Hi, On modern laptops, the BIOS allows you to boot from an USB key. So, you could prepare a key on another machine to bootstrap FreeBSD, by putting a proper MBR, partition table and partition (slice in FreeBSD vocabulary). The BIOS makes real-mode programs that use it believe

laptop video output

2007-06-13 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, (hope this is in right forum) I want to buy a laptop, but dont know if fbsd support video output so i can use to do presentation. Thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: laptop video output

2007-06-13 Thread wizlayer
On 6/13/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, (hope this is in right forum) I want to buy a laptop, but dont know if fbsd support video output so i can use to do presentation. Thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: laptop video output

2007-06-13 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Mittwoch, den 13.06.2007, 08:12 -0400 schrieb Tsu-Fan Cheng: hi, (hope this is in right forum) I want to buy a laptop, but dont know if fbsd support video output so i can use to do presentation. Thank you!! TFC ___ freebsd-questions

Re: laptop video output

2007-06-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:12:44 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (hope this is in right forum) I want to buy a laptop, but dont know if fbsd support video output so i can use to do presentation. Thank you!! you should ask in [EMAIL PROTECTED] - check the archives first

Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Harriet Severino
Hi, I am getting an error message, and do not know how to fix the problem. I have a new Intel Celeron laptop, and want to run FreeBSD on it. I chose the standard installation for user + Xwindows. After teh insytallation I configured Xorg, by section 5 of the documantation. The test worked, and I

Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Harriet Severino
Hi, I am getting an error message, and do not know how to fix the problem. I have a new Intel Celeron laptop, and want to run FreeBSD on it. I chose the standard installation for user + Xwindows. After teh insytallation I configured Xorg, by section 5 of the documantation. The test worked, and I

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Rico Secada
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Harriet Severino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting an error message, and do not know how to fix the problem. I have a new Intel Celeron laptop, and want to run FreeBSD on it. I chose the standard installation for user + Xwindows. After teh

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Frank Wissmann
It may be that you configured securelevel on startup. Try with sysctl kern.securelevel to find out which is your securelevel. It may be 1 or greater. Then try to change it either with sysinstall or directly at the command prompt with sysctl -w kern.securelevel=-1. This should work. Greetings

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Harriet Severino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am getting an error message, and do not know how to fix the problem. I have a new Intel Celeron laptop, and want to run FreeBSD on it. I chose the standard installation for user + Xwindows. After teh

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 6.2 on laptop

2007-06-11 Thread Harriet Severino
Hi, I did not reply to the list on this. Thanks you for yor help. I have changed the kern.securelevel and kde comes up. Now I am on to configureing and installing apps. H Severino --- Frank Wissmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It may be that you configured securelevel on startup. Try with

Laptop Hardware Support Question

2007-05-10 Thread Nikhil Bysani
I was just wondering how well 1280 x 800 resolution is supported (xorg/console), and if anyone was getting the Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN card to work in any way. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Laptop Hardware Support Question

2007-05-10 Thread WizLayer
laptop uses, and compare that to the list of supported graphics chipsets. You can find that list at xorg's website. For the wifi, see the all-knowing handbook. It will lead you to the ath manpage and the wi manpage. From there, you'll find links to supported wifi chipsets from those drivers

IBM T23 laptop and APCI

2007-04-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i've installed FreeBSD 6.2 on this laptop and got in dmesg as below. what that's all ACPI bugs? are them harmful? Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights

IBM T23 laptop and USB

2007-04-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
why ehci isn't detected on IBM T23 laptop possibly pci2: simple comms at device 2.0 (no driver attached) is the undetected ehci i have compiled ehci in kernel thank you uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port 0x1800-0x181f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT

Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Kosht
On 4/12/07, Matt Kosht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a working xorg.conf for this combo working with FreeBSD 6.2? Specifically I would like the onboard LCD on the laptop to display at 1920x1200 and an attached external LCD at 1280x1024 both at 32 bit color at the same time. I think

Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Matt Kosht
MetaModes DFP-0: 1920x1200, CRT-0: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # 2) The offset is to hide the xnest topbar. As a bonus, Option TwinViewOrientation Clone # 4) CRT screen separate from laptop screen. Option ConnectedMonitor DFP, CRT # If EDID cannot be retrieved

Re: Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Matt Kosht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 4/12/07, Matt Kosht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a working xorg.conf for this combo working with FreeBSD 6.2? Specifically I would like the onboard LCD on the laptop to display at 1920x1200 and an attached external LCD

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-17 Thread Sergio Lenzi
50 m isn't that much. I was guessing more in the range of one to five km. (Maybe with an outside antenna??) the idea is a child to communicate with another than with another... in a school during normal hour, ther will be about 500 computers XO on and online... so the all

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:33:14PM -0300, Sergio Lenzi wrote: 50 m isn't that much. I was guessing more in the range of one to five km. (Maybe with an outside antenna??) the idea is a child to communicate with another than with another... in a school during normal

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-16 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Comments pleaase I heard/read that these will be networked by transceiver going peer-to-peer. With a range of a few miles. The school or university would serve at the link with the Internet. Yes? If other, please explain. Yes they are networked using

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 02:40:42PM -0300, Sergio Lenzi wrote: Comments pleaase I heard/read that these will be networked by transceiver going peer-to-peer. With a range of a few miles. The school or university would serve at the link with the Internet. Yes?

The OX laptop...

2007-04-15 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Here in my country is happening the FISL http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en they finally show the $100 dollar laptop for children.. the machine have 512mb of memory, more 512mb of flash rom, resolution of about 1000x900 keyboard and mouse . they have been in testing for some months

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-15 Thread bram
Sergio Lenzi schreef: Here in my country is happening the FISL http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en they finally show the $100 dollar laptop for children.. the machine have 512mb of memory, more 512mb of flash rom, resolution of about 1000x900 keyboard and mouse . they have been

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 03:43:43PM -0300, Sergio Lenzi wrote: Here in my country is happening the FISL http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en they finally show the $100 dollar laptop for children.. the machine have 512mb of memory, more 512mb of flash rom, resolution of about

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-15 Thread Chris Slothouber
Sergio Lenzi wrote: Here in my country is happening the FISL http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en they finally show the $100 dollar laptop for children.. the machine have 512mb of memory, more 512mb of flash rom, resolution of about 1000x900 keyboard and mouse . they have been

Working xorg.conf for Dell Latitude D820 laptop (NVidia Quadro NVS 120M GeForce Go 7400 512MB)?

2007-04-12 Thread Matt Kosht
Does anyone have a working xorg.conf for this combo working with FreeBSD 6.2? Specifically I would like the onboard LCD on the laptop to display at 1920x1200 and an attached external LCD at 1280x1024 both at 32 bit color at the same time. I think this may be called twinview

Re: xorg resolution on new laptop

2007-04-03 Thread Vince
I have this working, however i cant remember my method for working it out. I use /usr/local/bin/915resolution 4d 1440 900 16 (in an rc script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/915res ) my xorg.conf (relevant bits) Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver i810 VendorName Intel

Re: xorg resolution on new laptop

2007-04-03 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 09:29:12AM +0100, Vince wrote: I have this working, however i cant remember my method for working it out. Thanks for the answer, but this doesn't work for me. Comments below. I use /usr/local/bin/915resolution 4d 1440 900 16 (in an rc script

Re: xorg resolution on new laptop

2007-04-03 Thread Mark Moellering
Michael, I am using a SGI-1600SW (1600 x 1024) and I have found that I must specify the HorizSync and VertRefresh values in the monitor setting of my xorg.conf to get it to work properly, even though all the docs say that it is supported using the GLINT R3 driver. Also, I

Re: xorg resolution on new laptop

2007-04-03 Thread Michael W. Lucas
I'm not certain why this works since I'm setting the mode to 1440x900 in 16bits but it does. (from xdpyinfo) screen #0: print screen:no dimensions:1440x900 pixels (302x191 millimeters) resolution:121x120 dots per inch depths (7):24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 root

xorg resolution on new laptop

2007-04-02 Thread Michael W. Lucas
Hi folks, I've scoured Google seeking wisdom, and found nothing except hordes of Linux users whining about this same problem. FreeBSD users don't seem to have this issue, except for me. Finally I have no choice but to throw myself on your tender mercies. I've been going nuts trying to get

External touchpad for a laptop?

2007-04-01 Thread Ian Smith
Can anybody spare me a clue? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:58:32 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: External touchpad? Hi, running a Thinkpad T23 on 6.1-RELEASE. Happy but for the 'stickmouse', finding it tediously

Re: FreeBSD laptop computer

2007-03-20 Thread Simon Phoenix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Wojciech Puchar said the following on 14.03.2007 21:14: i need to buy new notebook for personal use. Could you give me an advice what will be actually FULLY supported by FreeBSD. Other needs are: a) low price b) high reliability c) long

Re: FreeBSD laptop computer

2007-03-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Maybe this links will be useful for you: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ http://tuxmobil.org/mobile_bsd.html EXCELLENT thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

FreeBSD laptop computer

2007-03-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i need to buy new notebook for personal use. Could you give me an advice what will be actually FULLY supported by FreeBSD. Other needs are: a) low price b) high reliability c) long battery run processing power and extra peripherals are not important, even slower NEW laptops are much more

Re: FreeBSD laptop computer

2007-03-14 Thread Alexandre Vieira
On 3/14/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i need to buy new notebook for personal use. Could you give me an advice what will be actually FULLY supported by FreeBSD. Other needs are: a) low price b) high reliability c) long battery run processing power and extra peripherals are

Re: FreeBSD laptop computer

2007-03-14 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
(H/W Ver: B2) PC-Card, which is Atheros-based and works like a charm. The snd_hda driver supports the audio chipset of this laptop quite nicely, and Ariff has committed to CURRENT a patch which fixes a minor glitch (plugging in head-phones wouldn't turn the speakers off). All in all, this has been

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:28:06 -0500 frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64. Hi there, I am not sure how to switch off the screen on the dell (independent of ACPI

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread frzburn
too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64. Hi there, I am not sure how to switch off the screen on the dell (independent of ACPI)... in all laptops I've seen, it's fully controlled by the hardware (bios?). Have you got acpi working ? If you *do* have ACPI

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Downey
a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64. Hi there, I am not sure how to switch off the screen on the dell (independent of ACPI)... in all laptops I've seen, it's fully controlled by the hardware (bios

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 17:57:31 -0500 frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I didn't find these info anywhere =( Please help me! =) Kevin's email may have the answer for you. acpi is working, it has control on my fan and monitors my CPU temperature. I tried devd -dD, and it reacts when I close

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread frzburn
On 3/6/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:28:06 -0500 frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64. Hi there, I am

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread frzburn
this output... Thanks! frzburn On 3/6/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:28:06 -0500 frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400

Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-05 Thread frzburn
Hi folks! I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64. That's all! Thanks! =) frzburn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: IBM T60 laptop?

2007-02-23 Thread Jurjen Middendorp
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:40:37PM +1100, fbsd wrote: Hi All, I am looking for a good laptop to put FreeBSD (PCBSD) on. The general consensus seems to be that IBM make good units and that the T60 is a good choice. But when I look at the three components that seem to cause most trouble

Dell laptop + sound

2007-02-20 Thread Michael S
Good day all, I am having problems getting sound to work on an old Dell Latitude. I configured the sound card following the handbook, and the driver (snd_ich) loads just fine. However I can neither hear anything when doing cat file /dev/dsp nor can I raise the volume level using the XFCE volume

Re: Dell laptop + sound

2007-02-20 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:59:43 -0500 (EST) Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems getting sound to work on an old Dell Latitude. I configured the sound card following the handbook, and the driver (snd_ich) loads just fine. However I can neither hear anything when doing cat

Re: Dell laptop + sound - Solved

2007-02-20 Thread Michael S
Thanks Norberto I figured it out, it was a maestro3 driver. Michael --- Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:59:43 -0500 (EST) Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems getting sound to work on an old Dell Latitude. I configured the sound card

IBM T60 laptop?

2007-02-14 Thread fbsd
Hi All, I am looking for a good laptop to put FreeBSD (PCBSD) on. The general consensus seems to be that IBM make good units and that the T60 is a good choice. But when I look at the three components that seem to cause most trouble in laptops 1. Graphics cards, 2. high definition audio

freebsd on laptop (len problem)

2007-02-04 Thread S. M. Ibrahim \(Lavlu\)
i installed freebsd 6 on a old laptop, it's p3 600 mhz. everthing goes fine, but after installation, my len is not working. It's IBM 10/10 EtherJet CardBus Adapter and connected in pcmci . it's not detected. Any idea ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

[SOLVED] Re: laptop screen always shutdown if no keyboard interaction for several minutes

2007-01-26 Thread Zhang Weiwu
在 2007-01-23二的 16:47 +0800,Zhang Weiwu写道: Hello. I tried various ways to stop the laptop screen from being shutting down, as I use this screen to watch debug message of an application I am working on, I need monitor always on, no screensaver, no blank, no dpms etc. I cannot do it. I have

laptop screen always shutdown if no keyboard interaction for several minutes

2007-01-23 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. I tried various ways to stop the laptop screen from being shutting down, as I use this screen to watch debug message of an application I am working on, I need monitor always on, no screensaver, no blank, no dpms etc. I cannot do it. I have tried: 1. set blanktime to NO in /etc/rc.conf

Re: laptop screen always shutdown if no keyboard interaction for several minutes

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/23/07, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I tried various ways to stop the laptop screen from being shutting down, as I use this screen to watch debug message of an application I am working on, I need monitor always on, no screensaver, no blank, no dpms etc. I cannot do it. I have

laptop screen always shutdown if no keyboard interaction for several minutes

2007-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 162, Issue 5 Message: 3 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:47:02 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. I tried various ways to stop the laptop screen from being shutting down, as I use this screen to watch debug message of an application I am

Incorrect kernel time on laptop boot

2007-01-18 Thread Gilbert Cao
Hi the list, I currently experienced a problem with my Sony Vaio VGN-FE31B laptop. Each time I boot, the kernel time seems to be set with the wrong date time. When I poweroff the machine, wait for some minutes and reboot again, the kernel time is set with a few seconds after the wrong time

Re: Incorrect kernel time on laptop boot

2007-01-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:35:43AM +0100, Gilbert Cao wrote: Hi the list, I currently experienced a problem with my Sony Vaio VGN-FE31B laptop. Each time I boot, the kernel time seems to be set with the wrong date time. When I poweroff the machine, wait for some minutes and reboot again

Re: Incorrect kernel time on laptop boot

2007-01-18 Thread Gilbert Cao
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:41:49AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:35:43AM +0100, Gilbert Cao wrote: Hi the list, I currently experienced a problem with my Sony Vaio VGN-FE31B laptop. Each time I boot, the kernel time seems to be set with the wrong date time

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:29:45AM -0500, Lion G. wrote: Hi all, I have a weird question. In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop (and I would only hear music through the earphone) With my newest laptop (Acer Aspire 5050), the laptop

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-11 Thread Vince
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:29:45AM -0500, Lion G. wrote: Hi all, I have a weird question. In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop (and I would only hear music through the earphone) With my newest laptop (Acer

RESOLVED (RE: Laptop speaker vs earphone)

2007-01-11 Thread Lion G.
Thanks everyone, and especially a big thank to awesome Ariff Abdullah who solved it and confirmed it was software-based on this laptop! Lion Tanker wrote: In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop (and I would only hear music through

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-11 00:29, Lion G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a weird question. In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop (and I would only hear music through the earphone) Which is what *should* happen. After all, when you plug

Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Lion G.
Hi all, I have a weird question. In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop (and I would only hear music through the earphone) With my newest laptop (Acer Aspire 5050), the laptop speaker stays on no-matter-what. I would hear the same music

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm using Ariff Abdullah's snd_hda driver on 6.2-RC2. The driver reports: pcm0: ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller mem 0xc000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 pcm0: HDA Codec: Realtek ALC883 pcm0: HDA Driver Revision: 20061210_0037 I'd tend to that that the thing that

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Bob McIsaac
Olivier Nicole wrote: I'm using Ariff Abdullah's snd_hda driver on 6.2-RC2. The driver reports: pcm0: ATI SB450 High Definition Audio Controller mem 0xc000-0xc0003fff irq 16 at device 20.2 on pci0 pcm0: HDA Codec: Realtek ALC883 pcm0: HDA Driver Revision: 20061210_0037 I'd tend to

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Lion G.
Bob McIsaac wrote: A headphone plugged into a speaker line would blast your ears because of the extreme difference in sensitivity unless the jack switches in a series resistor to reduce the level. If you notice poor low-freq response in your phones, that implies it is a line jack intended for

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
on other plugs. The plug I was trying had a graphics of a microphone on it, and SPDIF written next to it also. According to a quick google at SPDIF, it is a digital signal plug, so noting where you can connect earphone... Olivier ___

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-10 Thread Lion G.
Olivier Nicole wrote: According to a quick google at SPDIF, it is a digital signal plug, so noting where you can connect earphone... I know... but earphone sounded great when plugging into it. (And it does have a earphone graphical symbol right on it) Also, I don't have the user manual with

System hang on laptop suspend/resume

2007-01-07 Thread Stephen Casner
I was running FreeBSD 4.8 on my Sony PCG-505TR laptop for about three years until I recently upgraded to 6.1 with a clean install on a new disk drive. One aspect of FreeBSD that I really liked was that suspend-to-memory and resume worked perfectly and quickly every time, whereas when I had

fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Franks
This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes. My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a fresh disk for my shiny new compaq: Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was completed from cd safemode boot. She runs

Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC

2007-01-06 Thread Micah
Steve Franks wrote: This is why no one ever got fired for buying an IBM as the old adage goes. My ancient Dell laptop had absolutely no install issues, so I bought a fresh disk for my shiny new compaq: Behavior is identical off of 6.1-current cd or install to ad0 that was completed from cd

Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Franks
Thanks for that. Unfortunately, no change, but I'm going to start combing device.hints for any devices my laptop doesn't have, and turn them all off, maybe I'll get lucky. Looks like I can install amd64 on it, but I don't think the currently-running i386 6.1 release is the problem, you'd think

Re: fresh install - compaq laptop locks up on boot after timecounter TSC

2007-01-06 Thread Steve Franks
PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that. Unfortunately, no change, but I'm going to start combing device.hints for any devices my laptop doesn't have, and turn them all off, maybe I'll get lucky. Looks like I can install amd64 on it, but I don't think the currently-running i386 6.1 release is the problem

Can not power-off or reboot on Acer Aspire 5100 laptop.

2006-12-21 Thread Janvier Pang
Hi everyone, I have a new Acer Aspire 5100 laptop and a FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 installed. When I shutdown the machine by shutdown -p now command, the machine will hang after printing the All Buffers Synced. Uptime: xx:xx messages. If I use the reboot command to reboot the machine, i got the same

Re: Can not power-off or reboot on Acer Aspire 5100 laptop.

2006-12-21 Thread Paul Argentoff
On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:42, Janvier Pang wrote: I've tried to disable the ACPI function on start up, the system will crash and reboot. Could anybody kindly help or give some hints to solve this shutting down problem? Comment out device ehci in your kernel config: you'll see the

Gateway MX3215 laptop running fbsd 6.1 current, no sound.

2006-12-13 Thread Matthew_Northcott
Greetings everyone, I have been hacking at this freebsd install for over 3 weeks now. Got everything working perfectly but sound. Been playing with it for awhile and have tried all of the config options i could imagine. Now gateway doesnt shed to much light on the soundcard/chipset thats in

RE: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-12-01 Thread CyberSword
I really can't say enough times how much I love my IBM T23, it's a couple of years old and runs both WinXP and FreeBSD 6.1 like a charm. I only had a bit of a problems configuring X, but that's part me for not having much experience and was easily resolved by doing some digging in Google.

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-12-01 Thread Abram B OLson
I have an acer travelmate 2420 that requires ndis for the broadcom 4318 wireless card but other than that it works in linux and freebsd nearly out-of-the-box. I got it from newegg for 500 usd too. I'm very happy with it. Abe CyberSword wrote: I really can't say enough times how much I

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-12-01 Thread Old Ranger
Abram B OLson wrote: I have an acer travelmate 2420 that requires ndis for the broadcom 4318 wireless card but other than that it works in linux and freebsd nearly out-of-the-box. I got it from newegg for 500 usd too. I'm very happy with it. Abe CyberSword wrote: I really can't say enough

Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail seems to download into /var/mail Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format. The Mail directory also has only one folder and on exit is empty. /var/mail still has copies. Can anyone

Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use

2006-11-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:30:09 - Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And lastly, APM or ACPI what the best one to go with on my HP OmniBook 6000 and how to configure suspend etc etc if you can, ACPI. if it doesn't work, try APM. Check the handbook for docs on this - else the archives

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