Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:45:40 +0200 From: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ideal kernel configuration for Dell Inspiron 8200 ... Message-ID: <1126899940.1316.12.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <432B2019.9030007@ultra-secure.de> References: <1126898216.1316.4.camel@localhost> <432B2019.9030007@ultra-secure.de>
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On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 21:42 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Kiffin Gish wrote: > > >Hello everyone. > > > >I would like to know if there is a good example somewhere of an > >optimized kernel configuration for my Dell Inspiron 8200. > > > >I've got FreeBSD 2.4 running on the GENERIC but want to maximize > >usage/resources for my laptop which is also running the Gnome 2.10 > >desktop and tools. > > > >Can anyone help me? > > > > > > > > > I don't think there's a lot to maximize. > I've still got a Inspiron 4000 and 512 MB (Celeron 800 or so) that's > quite happily running KDE3.x. > Of course, the newer Lifebook E8010 is much snappier, the additional 512 > MB RAM also do help. > > If you want more speed, change to XFCE4. > > > > Rainer > Well maybe not, but one (big) improvement I would think would be to change to the CPUTYPE?=i686 and removing all those device references that are not used, e.g. SCSI, ATAPI tape drives, MD_ROOT, etc. Or am I just doing alot of crazy work with minimal improvements and possible disaster? -- Kiffin Gish Gouda, The Netherlands
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