Ideal kernel configuration for Dell Inspiron 8200 ...

[Kiffin Gish]

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 21:42 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Kiffin Gish wrote:
> 
> >Hello everyone.
> >
> >I would like to know if there is a good example somewhere of an
> >optimized kernel configuration for my Dell Inspiron 8200.
> >
> >I've got FreeBSD 2.4 running on the GENERIC but want to maximize
> >usage/resources for my laptop which is also running the Gnome 2.10
> >desktop and tools.
> >
> >Can anyone help me?
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> I don't think there's a lot to maximize.
> I've still got a Inspiron 4000 and 512 MB (Celeron 800 or so) that's 
> quite happily running KDE3.x.
> Of course, the newer Lifebook E8010 is much snappier, the additional 512 
> MB RAM also do help.
> 
> If you want more speed, change to XFCE4.
> 
> 
> 
> Rainer
> 

Well maybe not, but one (big) improvement I would think would be to
change to the CPUTYPE?=i686 and removing all those device references
that are not used, e.g. SCSI, ATAPI tape drives, MD_ROOT, etc.

Or am I just doing alot of crazy work with minimal improvements and
possible disaster?

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Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands