HP Pavillion laptop work with any version of FreeBSD?

Tue Sep 13 01:58:02 PDT 2005

WOB (wayofbsd) writes:
> 
> I posted the error messages to the mobile list, and didn't get a 
> response - I guess no one has this type of laptop. 
> 
> Has anyone had any luck with any version of FreeBSD on any version of HP 
> Pavillion laptop?

Just yesterday, I installed FreeBSD 5.3-REL on the laptop of my
colleague. He owns a HP Pavillion DV1000 series.

It worked out of the box.

Though, we needed to apply a small patch to the i8xx driver, to enable
1280x768 resolution in X.

/mich