From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed May 5 8:59:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from tardis.perspectives.net (unknown [63.66.225.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5752F14F4C for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 08:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerry.alexandratos@perspectives.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=tardis.perspectives.net) by tardis.perspectives.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10f43h-0000gY-00; Wed, 5 May 1999 11:58:05 -0400 To: Nate Williams Cc: Intuitive Design Archives , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best Laptop for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message from Nate Williams of "Wed, 05 May 1999 09:21:09 MDT." <199905051521.JAA16609@mt.sri.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <2630.925919885.1@tardis.perspectives.net> Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 11:58:05 -0400 From: Jerry Alexandratos Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams says: : > I am thinking of buying a new laptop, and will install FreeBSD on : > it. I was wondering which laptops work well with FreeBSD and has almost : > all support. : : I've had *really* good luck with IBM's. My new 366Mhz ThinkPad 600E : works great, although I haven't (yet) tried to get sound working, I : don't expect to have any problems. I agree with Nate. This is a solid machine. Only caveat is that you need to install with >=64M of mem and then build a kernel where MAXMEM= whatever the machine reports when it first boots. Nate, try this (works for me): device pcm0 at isa? port 0x52c irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x13 --Jerry name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a phone: 302.521.1018 || matter of life or death... email: jalexand@perspectives.net || ...It's much more important || than that! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message