From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 20:15:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAAE416A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:15:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from natnoddy.rzone.de (natnoddy.rzone.de [81.169.145.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB7143D3F for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:15:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from athena.laverenz.de (pD9550892.dip.t-dialin.net [217.85.8.146]) by post.webmailer.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBIKFVWM003222 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:15:31 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C47E38558D for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:15:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12615-03-8 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:15:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.100.3] (voodoo.laverenz.de [192.168.100.3]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD66E385584 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:15:31 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41C49023.1050801@laverenz.de> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 21:16:35 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041125 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <41C40910.4080001@laverenz.de> <20041218121449.GG12385@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20041218121449.GG12385@thingy.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:15:34 -0000 David Gerard wrote: > Does sound work properly in 5.3 on a laptop? I'm sure there are laptops, where sound might be a problem, but in general it simply works. I never had a problem with FreeBSD's sound support on a laptop. I even have an old Compaq Armada 1750 here, where only NetBSD and FreeBSD 4.x support the soundcard without too much tweaking ("options PNPBIOS" necessary). > I had so much trouble with FreeBSD on a laptop (an old Thinkpad 560X) that > I ended up resorting to Debian. Which works well. Debian isn't too bad either. :) cu, Uwe