freebsd on a laptop : only console use

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Saturday, June 21, 2014 a las 04:28:03PM +0200, Polytropon escribió:

> On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:17:51 -0400, Jerry wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 16:05:42 +0200, Polytropon stated:
> > 
> > > No, just don't pick the newest and shiniest thing you can
> > > imagine.
> > 
> > I assume you are not aware of how pathetic that sounds.
> 
> First think - then buy. Works wonders, saves money and trouble.
> Just my very individual and non-representative experience. :-)

I think the best aproach is prepare a FreeBSD booting USB key, let the
device boot, capture /var/log/messages (i.e. have syslogd enabled in the
boot key) and in addition run on command line:

# pciconf -lv > pci.out
# Xorg -configure

and save the files /var/log/Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf.new; go home and
investigate the output and the chipsets re/ if they are supported in
FreeBSD.

If the dealer is unwilling to allow it, go to another one.

HIH

	matthias
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