[question] R3000Z + FreeBSD 6.0 or just FreeBSD in general

[Adi Pircalabu]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:43:58 -0700
"Joshua" <joshual at emailengine.org> wrote:

> Hi, I have an R3000Z, and have used freebsd 5.4 both i386, and amd64
> versions on it. I've recenlty migrated back to a linux distro of
> choice because although I found FreeBSD to be a superior OS in just
> about every other aspect, I found (as expected from reading about this
> laptop+freebsd all over the place) this laptop not so well supported.

Hi, I'm running 5.4 for i386 on a NX9105 and I hope to switch to 6.0
as soon as I'll have some time to play with it. NX9105 is very simillar
to R3000Z, and I find it, after some DSDT patching, very FreeBSD
friendly, excepting suspend issues. Can you give some details about the
problems encountered?

> I'm wondering if its expected that the machine will be better
> supported in 6.0, as I'd love to go back to fbsd. I've also read that
> the problem is actually the BIOS is just broken, if so why isnt it
> being fixed? :)

It has a buggy BIOS indeed, but you can workaround it somehow. As a
side note, I think HP released a BIOS update for NX9105, but the
system run pretty well right now, is very stable, so I won't need this
update in the next future (I think).
There are also many Web resources available. Personally, I think one of
the best sites found is http://blackk.union.edu/~black/freebsd/
It contains also many helpful pointers.


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