nOOb: FreeBSD & laptop

From: Mazen S. Alzogbi (freebsd_at_mazenalzogbi.com)
Date: 01/26/04

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    Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 14:45:17 +0400
    
    

    Hi,

    I am sending this to hear what everyone thinks of FreeBSD on laptops. To
    be honest, I don't want to replace FreeBSD with Linux on my laptop
    because of many reasons. Yet, I have to admit that I am having all
    source of troubles with FreeBSD on the laptop but not on the
    workstation!

    To be more specific, sound doesn't work (yes, I did recompile the kernel
    with "device apm" and the conflict happens in IRQ 10 which for some
    reason many drivers are trying to use and only one of them is
    succeeding), external mouse is giving me troubles (hanging sometimes),
    touch pad the same (not working) with KDE or GNOME, internal modem
    (winmodem) is no working, a bit slow (2.4 GHz with 512 MB RAM
    machine!!).

    On the other hand, I cannot describe how neat the same OS (4.9-RELEASE)
    is working on the desktop, simply, everything is working fast and the
    system is reliable.

    Do you care to share me your experience? Thanks.

    Cheers,

    Mazen
    www.MazenAlzogbi.com

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