Experience with Dell Latitude D620?

[Doug Ambrisko]

Doug Barton writes:
| Doug Ambrisko wrote:
| > Doug Barton writes:
| > | Doug Ambrisko wrote:
| > | > The _2_ version is supposed to be 64-bit.  I waiting to get such
| > | > a laptop from work with a 19.2x12 screen.  I will be using
| > | > it in 64bit mode and compiling for both 32bit and 64bit stuff.
| > | > Since the other 64bit variants work Celeron etc. I would expect
| > | > the mobile version to just work.
| > | 
| > | It does, thanks! My only regret so far is that the nvidia drivers 
| > | don't have a 64 bit version, but the box and video card are fast 
| > | enough so that isn't really a problem. I'm pleasantly surprised that 
| > | so far all of my ports work in 64 bit mode as well.
| > 
| > That was my experience with the nvidia stuff before :-(
| > 
| > FYI, it should be trival to jail/chroot 32bit env. on your 64bit host.
| > 
| > I should merge some of the make/env. bits from -current to -stable.
| > I'll do it after 6.2 is out.  I'm thinking about make a general
| > purpose way to create an image and jump into it.  We have it at 
| > work and as a proof of concept.  I created a 32bit environment on
| > a 64bit host and did port built and package add in there of Linux
| > stuff.
| 
| Eeek, I didn't know that linux stuff wouldn't work, thanks. The thing 
| I use it for most often is acroread, what do people use to view pdfs 
| in 64-bit land? I just tried epdfview, and it was about 50% successful.

Yes, 32bit Linux works on amd64 kernel.  You can probably do it via
the module but I usually have the COMPAT_LINUX32 option in my kernel.
Yes, netscape, acroread, flash works.  There has been a lot of
work to make FreeBSD 32bit work on amd64 as well ... good enough
to host a build world, ports build etc.
 
| As for your other stuff, I was planning to give qemu a try to run both 
| windows, and other versions of FreeBSD in a 64-bit 7-current host OS. 
| I also like your idea of doing the chroot environment, that might be a 
| lighter weight solution for day to day stuff. Are you going to write 
| up what you've done?

When I get it into a form to use.  I might hit up ru for some ideas
on how.  Sort-of like:
	make TARGET=i386 DESTDIR=/compat/i386 enter
from /usr/src.  There is some hackery needed so that things
like mount etc. and libraries work right.  Since we have it working
here at work I understand most of the issues so ports builds work
since some stuff can get messed up.

If you are willing to help document what I give you to test that
would help a lot.

Doug A.