Re: Laptop suggestions

[Paul Grunwald <pgrunwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bryan Berch <dfbsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:14944755.1104948572068.JavaMail.root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: 

> Since I have had no luck in getting the laptops keyboard to work with
> the Compaq R3000, would anyone have a good suggestion for a current
> model that works well with dragonfly.
> 
> Thanks
> Bryan

For what it is worth, my IBM r32 seems to be well supported.  I got this 
refurb'd with a 3 Year IBM warranty for $800 from off-leasecomputers.com.  
I have wireless, Xfree86, and sound working,  I have not had time to play 
with sleep/suspend, firewire, etc. but it all seems to be seen.  Battery 
life is about 2 hours.  

In general, I think the IBM laptops are well supported (and well 
supported in Linux).  TechBargains had a good deal on a t42 a couple of 
days ago.
"IBM Thinkpad t42 Centrino $1199 - January 5, 2005
IBM has the light 4.5lb Thinkpad t42 Centrino Notebook Pentium M 1.6Ghz 
256MB/40GB, DVD/CDRW, 14.1in screen, 802.11g, Gigabit Ethernet $1199.20 
shipped free, save $300. $29.99 upgrade to Office 2003 Basic.  "


Here is the dmesg from my r32:

Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 The DragonFly Project.
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
DragonFly 1.1-Stable #5: Wed Dec 22 12:51:50 PST 2004
    root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
TSC clock: 1599854156 Hz, i8254 clock: 1193208 Hz
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.60GHz (1599.83-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf24  Stepping = 4
  
Features=0x3febf9ff
<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLU
SH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM>
real memory  = 670433280 (654720K bytes)
avail memory = 640241664 (625236K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "/kernel" at 0xc068d000.
Preloaded elf module "/modules/snd_pcm.ko" at 0xc068d288.
Preloaded elf module "/modules/snd_ad1816.ko" at 0xc068d330.
Preloaded elf module "/modules/snd_ich.ko" at 0xc068d3dc.
Preloaded elf module "/modules/acpi.ko" at 0xc068d484.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 10 entries at 0xc00fdef0
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Using XMM optimized bcopy/copyin/copyout
acpi0: <IBM TP-1M> on motherboard
installed MI handler for int 9
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT> port 0x66,0x62 on acpi0
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
cpu0: <ACPI CPU (3 Cx states)> on acpi0
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_tz1: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_lid0: <Control Method Lid Switch> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat0: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_cmbat1: <Control Method Battery> on acpi0
acpi_acad0: <AC Adapter> on acpi0
pcib0: <Intel 82845 Host to PCI bridge> at pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82845 host to AGP bridge> mem 0xe0000000-0xe3ffffff at 
device 0.0 on pci0
pcib1: <Intel 82845 PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <ATI model 4c59 graphics accelerator> at 0.0 irq 11
uhci0: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A> port 0x1800-0x181f 
irq 11 at device 29.0 on 
pci0
installed MI handler for int 11
usb0: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B> port 0x1820-0x183f 
irq 11 at device 29.1 on 
pci0
usb1: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C> port 0x1840-0x185f 
irq 11 at device 29.2 on 
pci0
usb2: <Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pcib2: <PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=2448)> at device 30.0 on 
pci0
pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
fwohci0: <Texas Instruments TSB43AB21/A/AI/A-EP> mem 0xd0200000-
0xd0203fff,0xd0205000-0xd02057ff 
irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci2
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:01:24:10:23:0c:6d:b2
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 1 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:01:24:0c:6d:b2
fwe0: MAC address: 02:01:24:0c:6d:b2
sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc000ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xf8000000-0xf8000fff irq 11 at device 7.0 
on pci2
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.2)
wi0: MAC address: 00:20:e0:8e:6f:24
wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
fxp0: <Intel 82801CAM (ICH3) Pro/100 VE Ethernet> port 0x8000-0x803f mem 
0xd0204000-0xd0204fff irq 
11 at device 8.0 on pci2
miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
inphy0: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: MAC address: 00:0a:e4:43:3f:e3
cbb0: <TI1410 PCI-CardBus Bridge> irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci2
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=8086 device=248c)> at device 31.0 on 
pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH3 ATA100 controller> port 
0x1860-0x186f,0x374-0x377,0x170-0x177,0x3f4-0x3f7,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 
31.1 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
installed MI handler for int 14
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
installed MI handler for int 15
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2483) at 31.3 irq 11
pcm0: <Intel ICH3 (82801CA)> port 0x18c0-0x18ff,0x1c00-0x1cff irq 11 at 
device 31.5 on pci0
pcm0: <Analog Devices AD1881A AC97 Codec>
pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x8086, dev=0x2486) at 31.6 irq 11
orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcefff,0xd0000-0xd17ff,0xdc000-
0xdffff,0xe0000-0xeffff on 
isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
installed MI handler for int 6
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
installed MI handler for int 1
psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
installed MI handler for int 12
psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
installed MI handler for int 4
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
installed MI handler for int 3
ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
installed MI handler for int 0
ata1-slave: ATAPI identify retries exceeded
acpi_cpu: throttling enabled, 8 steps (100% to 12.5%), currently 100.0%
ad0: 28615MB <IC25N030ATCS04-0> [58140/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: CD-RW <UJDA720 DVD/CDRW> at ata1-master PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s3a
cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
cd0: <MATSHITA UJDA720 DVD/CDRW 1.03> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 16.000MB/s transfers
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present - 
tray closed