Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Stephan Lichtenauer
Peter, Am 26.05.2009 um 23:13 schrieb Peter Jeremy: On 2009-May-24 15:33:43 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan ga...@freebsd.org wrote: Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that model in particular but I googled a bit and it seems mostly everything works with it. I have the

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/23 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power.

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-May-27 09:47:24 +0200, Stephan Lichtenauer fbsdli...@honeyguide.net wrote: Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that I have the SSD version and everything except the webcam and suspend/ resume works out of the box. What FreeBSD version are you using? FreeBSD

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-26 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-May-24 15:33:43 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan ga...@freebsd.org wrote: Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that model in particular but I googled a bit and it seems mostly everything works with it. I have the SSD version and everything except the webcam and suspend/

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread Robert Noland
On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 20:09 +0200, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Koichiro IWAO escribió: The integrated video chip Intel GMA 500 is not a original Intel product. So X11 does not work with Intel driver and the driver is still unavailable. VESA is the only available driver. Does anyone have the

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread parv
in message 20090524161901.gb3...@current.sisis.de, wrote Matthias Apitz thusly... On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I have a real netbook, an EeePC 900 with 20 GByte SSD, Wifi, 1024x600 9 display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS.

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread parv
in message 20090524135229.ga3...@current.sisis.de, wrote Matthias Apitz thusly... Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko escribió: I did not run FreeBSD on it, so I apologize for slight OT, but my wife's Samsung NC10 (2.8 lbs, 10.2 screen, 160GB 5400RPM HDD) is pushing 6 hours of the battery life with

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1024x600 9 display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS. I have installed 8-CURRENT and all works as it should, only the inbuild cam is not supported, but I don't neet this at the moment (maybe later when Skype for FreeBSD can do video as well). Matthias, What kind of battery life

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Wojciech Puchar escribió: I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts,

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko escribió: I did not run FreeBSD on it, so I apologize for slight OT, but my wife's Samsung NC10 (2.8 lbs, 10.2 screen, 160GB 5400RPM HDD) is pushing 6 hours of the battery life with the wireless on and memory upgraded to 2GB. This is under Windows XP HOME ULCPC though.

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, May 24, 2009 a las 03:43:53PM +0200, Gabor Kovesdan escribió: Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko escribió: I did not run FreeBSD on it, so I apologize for slight OT, but my wife's Samsung NC10 (2.8 lbs, 10.2 screen, 160GB 5400RPM HDD) is pushing 6 hours of the battery life with the

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I have a real netbook, an EeePC 900 with 20 GByte SSD, Wifi, 1024x600 9 display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS. I have installed 8-CURRENT and all works as it should, only the inbuild cam is not

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, May 24, 2009 a las 04:56:11PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: On Sun, 24 May 2009 15:52:29 +0200, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: I have a real netbook, an EeePC 900 with 20 GByte SSD, Wifi, 1024x600 9 display and an attached USB Huawei E220 dongel for UMTS. I have

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Koichiro IWAO
Hi. Gabor Kovesdan : Hello, I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD I don't know about that you are going to buy, but I have Dell Inspiron mini 12. One

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-24 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Koichiro IWAO escribió: The integrated video chip Intel GMA 500 is not a original Intel product. So X11 does not work with Intel driver and the driver is still unavailable. VESA is the only available driver. If you want use X11, do not forget to choose Atom N series. Uh, thanks a lot, I

netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Gabor Kovesdan
Hello, I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD I was told that the new 6 cell Acer Aspire ONEs aren't bad. Could you share your experiences about the following

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W,

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:09 PM To: Gabor Kovesdan ga...@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD I'm about to buy

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W, excluding those really mobile. so 4 hours on batteryHDD seems possible. I respectfully disagree. As much as I hate Apple as a company, I currently have a MacBook Pro

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-23 Thread cpghost
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:40:35PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I respectfully disagree. As much as I hate Apple as a company, I currently have a MacBook Pro that gets over 4 hours of battery life and has a 200+gig HDD in it. i wrote somehow incompatible :) your macbook pro would run