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List:       freebsd-questions
Subject:    Re: Best Laptop for FreeBSD?
From:       "Christian S ." <cschreiber () netrail ! net>
Date:       2001-06-30 22:48:55
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I've had a hellish time getting BSD of *any* variety on my laptop - Something that \
XF3.3.6 didn't like - I'm not too sure what, but I had the ATI Rage Mobility 4 Meg \
card - I had an IBM "i" series (From what I understand, they are legendary for the \
problems that they have accepting FBSD.) I had some problems with the PCMCIA slots, \
too. I got it to work, but I couldn't get X to work - quite frustrating. I eventually \
ended up having SuSE installed on it, and I keep my desktop at FBSD 4.3. :)

HTH,
Chrisitan

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:51:19AM -0700, Linh Pham babbled:
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> On 2001-06-30, Jonathan M. Slivko scribbled:
> 
> # I'm looking to invest in a laptop to run FreeBSD so I can work on it while
> # i'm on the road. Any reccomendations for brand names, etc. that are
> # guaranteed to work with FreeBSD, without a whole lot of fiddling? TIA!
> 
> If you have the money, I would probably recommend the IBM Thinkpad T21
> (or now the T22). I have a T21 with the integrated Ethernet, 14"
> display, DVD-ROM and a 20GB hard drive. I have both Windows 2000 and
> FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE installed on it. I would highly recommend on getting
> the one with the built-in Intel Ethernet controller (since the cost is
> only a little bit more, less than a PC Card Ethernet controller).
> 
> The only thing that I haven't been able to get to work is the sound and
> the modem (doubt if the modem will ever work since it's a Winmodem).
> 
> As far as XFree86, I have the Savage IX8 chipset and it works with
> XFree86 3.3.6 using the SVGA drivers (maybe one of the S3 drivers too,
> but didn't try). The T21 and T22 that have the hi-res display (the ones
> that can go above 1280x1024) use a different chipset and will probably
> require XFree86 4.x
> 
> -- 
> Linh Pham
> [lplist@closedsrc.org]
> 
> // 404b - Brain not found
> 
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