Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 19:37:50 +0200 From: Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net> To: Reg Me Please <regmeplease@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on laptops Message-ID: <20081002173750.GA93255@phat.za.net> In-Reply-To: <200810021621.52597.regmeplease@gmail.com> References: <200810021621.52597.regmeplease@gmail.com>
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| By Reg Me Please <regmeplease@gmail.com> | [ 2008-10-02 16:48 +0200 ] > I'd like to know from the community what is the status for: > 0. Core2 Duo CPUs > 1. Support for modern chipsets (ICH8) > 2. support for power management (mostly ACPI and CPU clock freq. ) on laptops Mostly good. Suspending doesn't work on an SMP kernel, but CPU clock speed scaling is supported via powerd. ACPI mostly works for me, but I have to disable some hardware monitoring features to avoid EC related error messages. > 3. support for accelerated graphic cards (nVidia GeForce 8600M GT) Only on i386 without PAE - you'll be limited to 4 gig of RAM, but that's probably fine on a laptop. > 4. support for Intel wifi (4965 AGN) Not quite yet... > 5. support for other hardware like audio, card readers, i-Link, USB I've had no problem with high def audio on my HP Pavilion. Haven't tried my card reader. USB works, but is arguably the least reliable part of FreeBSD right now... look out for USB2. I am answering with experience of running FreeBSD 7.0 on an HP Pavilion dv2600. Regards, Aragon
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