laptop for -current

[Michael Ranner]

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2004 22:36 schrieb Kim Culhan:
> Anyone know a laptop they think is good for FreeBSd-current?
>
> With all the differences in hardware, trying to find
> one which is mostly compatible is not straightforward.
>
> The manufacturers don't make it easier..

Hi, running 5.2.1 nicely on HP compaq nx9005. This laptop has onboard LAN, 
firewire, DVD ROM/CD-Writer, USB 2.0 but also old style serial, parallel and 
floppy drive.

Soundcard works fine, gfx card needs X Server better than XFree86 4.3, I am 
running 4.3.99. Only the built in wavelan card is not supported, but have not 
yet tried to use ndisulator (Project Evil).

You might use the PowerNow kernel modul from http://poupinou.org/cpufreq/bsd/
because runnung the cpu on highes speed is not preferable (temp, noise, 
battery life time), but see this bice howto for FreeBSD on this Laptop:

http://demira.shopkeeper.de/~sascha/nx9005/

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