Laptop suggestions?

[Razmig K]

Zaphod Beeblebrox a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K <strontium90 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:strontium90 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron
>     1525N and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of
>     running FreeBSD smoothly? A quick glance over the hardware notes of
>     7.0-RELEASE and some googling around show that wireless, video and
>     audio are supported.
> 
> 
> One problem with most of the Dell offerings is that they use the NVidia 
> video chipset.  Now this is a plus if you're into playing a few games, 
> but it sucks if you're running FreeBSD.  One of the original requests 
> was for >4G RAM.  The NVidia binary driver only works on IA32, not AMD64 
> (and the opensource driver sucks at even 2D), so your RAM is practically 
> limited to around 3.5G (depending on a few things).  
> [...]
> ---- it's just that the 2D 
> acceleration feels very lacking and it also can't do things like scale a 
> movie at full frame rate.  
The aforementioned Dell models offer the Intel graphics accelerator 
X3100 as an option, which appears to be supported pretty well on both 32 
and 64 bit architectures. A fairly recent thread at PC-BSD forums 
reports successful use of Compiz Fusion (albeit on Ubuntu Gutsy) with 
this accelerator:
http://forums.pcbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=10936&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a


//rk