From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 12:20:49 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9381065670 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:20:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars.engels@0x20.net) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2238FC0C for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D75B6A6621 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:05:27 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.0x20.net Received: from mail.0x20.net ([217.69.76.211]) by mail.0x20.net (mail.0x20.net [217.69.76.211]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8rGr8QsndL8F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:05:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 0x20.net (0x20.net [217.69.76.212]) (Authenticated sender: lala) by mail.0x20.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 1EE3C6A61CA for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:05:27 +0200 (CEST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:05:27 +0200 From: Lars Engels To: In-Reply-To: <4E2DA659.3040704@gmail.com> References: <4E2D3B76.60906@gmail.com> <20110725123507.Horde.RFIIZNjz9kROLUbbAF_XZmA@webmail.df.eu> <4E2DA659.3040704@gmail.com> Message-ID: <1da69c0a03923f4996db074bac8d4665@mail.0x20.net> X-Sender: lars.engels@0x20.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.5.3 Subject: Re: Laptops & FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:20:49 -0000 On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:22:33 -0600, Shaun Reiger wrote: > Hi Markus, > > Thank you for the links and your laptop install story, I was glad to > read that you where able to solve your boot/bios problems. I'm not > sure if any one has tried installing FreeBSD on a Lenovo X1, but this > was the laptop I was considering. It seems like most of hardware is > intel. But I'm unsure of support for its hardware in the current BSD. > Here is a link to the site, and if you know of any issues installing > it please let me know. > > > http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/webca/LenovoPortal/en_CA/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087¤t-category-id=F8EAB670D7F93AC90F0B9F6C58B8E7A2&action=init > You could download a 9-CURRENT snapshot [1] from PCBSD, flash it to thumb drive and test the live mode in a notebook shop nearby. That's what I did before buying my Lenovo X200. Lars [1] ftp://ftp.pcbsd.org/pub/snapshots/