From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue May 30 13: 1:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE1B37B5CB for ; Tue, 30 May 2000 13:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA88647; Tue, 30 May 2000 16:01:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mwlucas) From: Michael Lucas Message-Id: <200005302001.QAA88647@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD on a Toshiba Satelite Pro 4270 In-Reply-To: <20000530192614.A3186@mail.rhein-zeitung.de> from Oliver Andrich at "May 30, 2000 7:26:14 pm" To: oli@rz-online.net (Oliver Andrich) Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 16:01:17 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, I've installed FreeBSD and used it, with full-screen X, on a variety of Satellites, including some of the newer ones. I haven't used that model, but I would guess it should run fine with some tweaking. Good luck! ==ml > Hi, > > I am currently deciding what type of OS I will run on my nice new laptop. > Linux runs more or less fine, but the recent Linux distribution are very > strange in the way they install the system. A lot of stuff is installed that I > don't like or need. (Behaves a little bit like Windows in my eyes.) And it > also only supports my graphics card through the rather slow FB device. > > I personally would prefer to run FreeBSD 4.0 on it. The way FreeBSD installs > is the way I like my system to install. I only get what I really want and > need. But my first tries sucked, cause I only get the machine working in a > small console window. No X and no frame buffer device either. > > So I like to ask, if anybody has tried it and hopefully succeded. My > requirements are rather small. I only a full screen console window. X is no > need for me, cause for my tasks it is sufficient to have a nice console. Is it > possible to get this running under FreeBSD? I have searched the web and the > available documentation, but didn't find any hint. > > Hopefully someone might help me. > > Best regards, > > Oliver Andrich > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message