Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:24:48 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Tom Uffnera <tom@wact.net> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sony vaio xg9 reccomendations? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912182321490.40937-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <385C83B7.AC1560E7@wact.net>
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On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Tom Uffnera wrote: > any suggestions for the best FreeBSD configuration for a Sony VAIO > PCG-XG9 ? I unfortunately need to leave win98 on it, although I can > reduce the size of the partition it lives in. i run -current on most > of my machines, but so far i have no recent experience with running > FreeBSD on a laptop (not since 2.2.2) I will be using -current on my new laptop. I plan to cut the FAT partition down to 500MB or so if I can and then to use vmware to access it, rather than run w98 native (if i can). > > from what i've seen on the current & hackers lists it seems like 4.0 is > probably not the best option at the moment, but i haven't had much of > a chance to look at how things work in 3.3 w/ or w/o PAO 4.0 is apparently struggling to life on laptops but its still a bit dodgy I hear. I'm hoping to get first hand experience of this soon :-) > > i can live w/o the internal modem, and sound if necessary, but i would like > to have X, a well supported network card, and suspend modes. i'm pretty > comfortable with -current on my non-critical desktop systems and wouldn't > mind being a test site if that's where most of the hardware is supported. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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