From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 21 14:40:21 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D8065BAD for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ms-10.1blu.de (ms-10.1blu.de [178.254.4.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9378827EA for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:40:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.104.30.195] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms-10.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WyMSo-0000B7-7G; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:40:18 +0200 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.7/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s5LEeFnL002633; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:40:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.7/8.14.3/Submit) id s5LEeFql002632; Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:40:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:40:15 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Polytropon Subject: Re: freebsd on a laptop : only console use Message-ID: <20140621144014.GA2535@La-Habana> Reply-To: Matthias Apitz 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20140621162803.905773a2.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r214444 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 93.104.30.195 Cc: User questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 14:40:21 -0000 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