From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 13:35:37 2010 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 28EC1106566B for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:35:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7D3F8FC12 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2010 13:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so4958675vws.13 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:35:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uD3XAzNA6jru0qm67DWbFcf0sEwZSAOEEfXeg+2ntwE=; b=ipZya2GvF/LhhVIvhXzGh2bg4IxG4glkt3euVIPdt+JgWbQHnpDsVxxNI1zInQ+mXm hYd7YXsLC2DQXtlOrmyCerbyMkJJBkx1yWUbJQ+RZCh+DYbaBtglBCV09PYQcXCOhp8D njMjpVOXcP8+R9MpuV9u3Q8frJkTqUNRbY2cU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=bu9IYbZywBTqtADcCTFk581mYEOLzYNAeyLnRNHYfE+HYImOKZwH2RUIUc0IDDUBy1 E0zWluQ6PrLc3hSGMACSqRwAkBBuf9CtcnAON2VCNfFPLNWeVMQikuShzBSGhR+FN/Wl pUt27+ExUrMQkyVMUtslUxL/QF7JSVJE6cI7w= Received: by 10.220.60.15 with SMTP id n15mr6315512vch.18.1280928935802; Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:35:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (173-161-130-225-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.161.130.225]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k30sm7558534vbl.9.2010.08.04.06.35.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C596CA5.9090706@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:35:33 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mubeeshalivm@gmail.com References: <20100804132800.298731CC3A@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20100804132800.298731CC3A@ptavv.es.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free bsd on laptops 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, 04 Aug 2010 13:35:37 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/4/10 9:28 AM, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 17:29:05 +0530 >> From: >> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org >> >> Hi , >> >> Thanks david for your detailed reply. >> >> I hope these would work in a bsd laptop: >> >> >> ATI or NVIDIA graphics card > ATI is open source friendly. NVIDIA is not. Still, both generally work. > >> hibernate or suspend functionality > Very platform and BIOS sensitive. It is hit and miss. > >> touchpad > Never seen much of problem. Full "Synaptics" support. Just works. > >> built in wireless card mostly Intel dot11 N wireless cards >> datacard ;make qualcomm (bsnl evdo mmx 300 ) Hi, If you are planning on purchasing a laptop from your local electronics shop, you might consider burning a PC-BSD DVD, and booting into the live OS. If they won't let you do that, find another shop. Regards, - -- Glen Barber -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMWWylAAoJEFJPDDeguUajEkEH/RfpBhn/2j5eaV8m6juBb+kv whZo3KDWw/SmZMX0jKkI6fXXztd1pzAzRe1bZzutvssYV3IDTOMoTs9QMHzBZad1 Pg4KmqN6IS464T659nfGt47qTx5pwhXM0+PbwWpJiQIwMNy0C3Kg/6wqZBQ1c8mV qd3RAfXSAYZ1GoAwKbYnE/SqD5MAWpFHmJb4e6SJcsQocQ8dV9Unb0zZz3w9YJGp eQWgGo9c9EDaqc+7z9E0+30ZWUCJSD3qFHox3gSj6BsROwAwWe3+3/FxUHnTfyk6 cKyz3ynK92pjzJWR+FN6V4aFP2FR6JwvwNVrkk/12hUJ5YKkNojOTdF/uhEEqkk= =dnuu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----