Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 12:40:47 -0400 From: Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Toshiba laptops Message-ID: <20030423164047.GB2392@laptop.lambertfam.org> In-Reply-To: <200304231427.h3NERg2F039773@dc.luth.se> References: <20030423101128.Q5477@volatile.chemikals.org> <200304231427.h3NERg2F039773@dc.luth.se>
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:27:42PM +0200, Borje Josefsson wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:17:16 EDT Wesley Morgan wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Tom wrote: > > > > > does anyone have any experience installing freebsd on a toshiba laptops in > > > general or ( specifically ) the satellite 1415 S173? what works/doesn't > > > work? > > > > You'll want to run 5.0 for cardbus support. 5.0 runs well on my 2805-S201. But buildworld is 30 minutes slower than under 4.8. > > The only piece of hardware that probably won't work is the modem. But who > > needs modems any more, and you can always pick up a pccard modem that > > works. I have a Xircom type3 that works fine for traveling. My Xircom MPCI winmodem works just fine with /usr/port/comms/ltmdm/. > I tried FreeBSD on my Portege 2000 last summer. While most things work > fine, I couldn't get the function keys (Func+Fn) to work (for example > Func+F5 to change between LCD and external video). It seems that all of > those keys are not handled by the BIOS directly, but instead interpreted > by Windows. If it was just for changing int/ext video, I could have lived > with the problem, but not when LCD light, speaker volume etc also are > affected :-( My 2805-S201 works for interal, external, and TV-out using the Func+F5 combination. TV-out isn't real great, but that's XFree86's problem not FreeBSD's. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org
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