Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:54:07 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, "~/.signature" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>, "Dmitry V. Kalashnikov" <dvk@qwest.net>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, "Dmitry V . Kalashnikov" <dvk@toolbuilders.com> Subject: Re: My perfect laptop! Message-ID: <200105111754.f4BHs7c08568@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 May 2001 11:42:05 CDT." <20010511114204.A19480@shade.nectar.com>
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> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:42:05 -0500 > From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:26:40AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I think it just stores a copy of RAM, so you don't need (much more) > > space than the size of your RAM. I don't know if FreeBSD supports > > suspend-to-disk. > > Suspend-to-disk works fine with FreeBSD on a Sony VAIO Z505sx (Phoenix > BIOS). In this case, the BIOS does as you say -- it dumps the RAM to > a partition. When you boot again, it loads it back up. It otherwise > behaves pretty much as suspend does. > > > My issues with the ThinkPads are: > > > > 1. I don't like the eraserhead pointer. I suppose I could get used > > to it, but it's an issue against it. > > I just replaced my Sony VAIO with a ThinkPad X20 (they are about the > same size/weight) in part because of disgust with the touchpad. I > hate the damn things, I always hit them with my thumbs while typing, > sending my cursor flying. The IBM TrackPoint is very accurate and > doesn't get in the way. The ThinkPad X20 also has 3 mouse buttons -- > woo hoo! > > > 2. All ThinkPads I have seen have the Fn key at bottom left where the > > Alt key should be. If it were anything else (Ctrl, for example), > > it could be remapped, but you can't remap the Fn key. Is this > > still the case on your machine? > > My bottom row starts out like: Fn Ctrl Alt Space ... Sometimes I hit > Fn when I meant to hit Ctrl. I find all keyboards take some time to > get used to. I always swap "Caps Lock" and "Ctrl" since that is the way almost all Unix systems had them before we went to i386 hardware. (Blame Microsoft for the switch. Rumor is that they did it to kill WordStar by making Ctrl hard to type.) This makes keyboards far more consistent as the caps lock key tends to stay put. (Did you know that you can do the same re-mapping under Windows?) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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