Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:40:15 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: User questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd on a laptop : only console use Message-ID: <20140621144014.GA2535@La-Habana> In-Reply-To: <20140621162803.905773a2.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20140621131504.GA895@h61.kathe.in> <20140621153727.e8469ee2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140621135301.GA982@h61.kathe.in> <20140621160542.d5aa979c.freebsd@edvax.de> <20140621101751.58696033@scorpio> <20140621162803.905773a2.freebsd@edvax.de>
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El día Saturday, June 21, 2014 a las 04:28:03PM +0200, Polytropon escribió: > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:17:51 -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:05:42 +0200, Polytropon stated: > > > > > No, just don't pick the newest and shiniest thing you can > > > imagine. > > > > I assume you are not aware of how pathetic that sounds. > > First think - then buy. Works wonders, saves money and trouble. > Just my very individual and non-representative experience. :-) I think the best aproach is prepare a FreeBSD booting USB key, let the device boot, capture /var/log/messages (i.e. have syslogd enabled in the boot key) and in addition run on command line: # pciconf -lv > pci.out # Xorg -configure and save the files /var/log/Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf.new; go home and investigate the output and the chipsets re/ if they are supported in FreeBSD. If the dealer is unwilling to allow it, go to another one. HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz | /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign: E-mail: guru@unixarea.de | \ / - No HTML/RTF in E-mail WWW: http://www.unixarea.de/ | X - No proprietary attachments phone: +49-170-4527211 | / \ - Respect for open standards | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign
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