Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 15:37:27 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd on a laptop : only console use Message-ID: <20140621153727.e8469ee2.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140621131504.GA895@h61.kathe.in> References: <20140621131504.GA895@h61.kathe.in>
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 18:45:05 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > but, would be nice to know battery state, etc. I'm sure there are sysctls you can query. Probably there is even a program in the ports collection which will do that for you. Note: As I've been using laptops with GUI, usually with WindowMaker, FVWM and Xfce mostly, I don't know which CLI utility does provide this kind of functionality _today_. In the past, apm has been used, so there's probably an ACPI-related tool for that today; "man acpiconf" seems to be a good starting point. > is freebsd ready for laptops? Depends on the particular laptop. :-) > i intend to go for the lenovo thinkpad L440 (dos version). Lenovo (ex IBM) ThinkPad seems to be a well supported platform. I have been running FreeBSD on a T40 and R61 successfully. But the business models made by Dell are also quite good. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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