Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:40:57 +0300 From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> To: "David Kalliecharan" <davidkallie@gmail.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop Message-ID: <499c70c0704302340y6dc807a6tb183560b27152fa7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7b0c7ad70704301624x7898ce28rf36e6d7b925827f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <7b0c7ad70704301624x7898ce28rf36e6d7b925827f2@mail.gmail.com>
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It should work alright, you'll need to use CPUTYPE?=k8 in make.conf Also you'll need powernow! Patch otherwise your laptop will hang, email me please off list to send you the powernow! patch was created by FreeBSD dev. On 5/1/07, David Kalliecharan <davidkallie@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! > I seem to run into a snag, I am going to buy a laptop for school work as I > my Laptop currently has become useless as I need to use Matlab/octave for > developing and opengl is a requirement for 3d mapping for creating visuals > (I would like to have Opengl to take advantage of this), the Ati driver does > not work, in a previous e-mail I found out that my chipset was no longer > supported by Ati (xpress 200m) > > The new laptop will have an Nvida Graphics cards (geforce go 6150 not much > better in specs but will do the job I need) The problem is that all of the > laptops that at this time are supporting Nvidia in my area all seem to be > AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual cores and AMD Turion 64 mobile. > > The question is does FreeBSD have any problems with the install on Dual core > using the i386 install disk? If not what about setting the make.conf file > for compiling Applications? I am used to using gentoo linux to do things and > am having a hard time finding this information, I know its similar but I > want to make sure its up and running properly, also Does anyone know how the > Geforce Go 6150 runs using the laest 1.0-9xxx series driver in the ports > tree?. So if anyone can point me in the right direction of installing > FreeBSD within the next few days on a Dual Core (if there any snags or not > using FreeBSD-6.2 stable) I would greatly appreciate it! > -- > Dave > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/
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