From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 02:19:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0103F16A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dmz2.onewest.net (isp1.blissnet.com [199.104.81.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE3D343D3F for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:19:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rfreidel@onewest.net) Received: from du83.192.onewest.net ([65.19.192.83] helo=localhost) by dmz2.onewest.net with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1D0sJK-0006bY-00 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:19:34 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:19:42 -0700 From: Ron Freidel To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050214191942.444ca5c2.rfreidel@onewest.net> In-Reply-To: <42114588.3090403@acm.org> References: <4210142F.8000202@optonline.net> <2fd864e050214065120da216e@mail.gmail.com> <42114588.3090403@acm.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0-gtk2-20041224 (GTK+ 2.4.14; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Choosing to install turns off laptop. HD is untouched. X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 02:19:37 -0000 On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:42:48 +0000 "Mark A-J. Raught" wrote: > Please note I am NOT knocking FreeBSD in any way. I run 5 on my current > laptop (it is fantastic) and 4.stable on several desktop and servers > (also fantastic... the OS, not my ability to run it). I really > appreciate all of the hard work that everyone does for the OS. I just > thought with the popularity of HP/Compaq machines that this would be > fixed quicker than it has. While my post may not actually answer the original post's question, not even the second, I hope in my own twisted way that there may be some relevance... When I shopped for a new laptop, rather than trying the ones available with a boot cd (I would have done so if more stores were in the area) I checked the dmesg list at ... http://www.nycbug.org/index.php?NAV=dmesgd finally settled on a Dell i8600. Pretty much everything works except for the nvidia.com driver, and the win modem, but I never use a modem anyway, and 3d support isn't as important to me as an operating system that works. But who knows... maybe in a year nvidia will release a new driver. I planned to install FreeBSD on any new laptop I purchased, I just wanted to make sure there were no issues. Ron -- My personal signature... 5.3-RELEASE-p5 This space intentionally left blank.