FreeBSD at HP 6820s

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Hello.

I'm going to buy HP 6820s laptop, and I want to know, can I run FreeBSD on it. I googled, but didn't find any information.
And with Linux this model work perfect, out from the box.

P.S.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/321957-321957-64295-321838-89315-3442856.html

[Weinter]

I think Intel Platforms are ok
Just don't get PUMA Platforms they are not well supported yet

[vermaden]

ATI Mobility Radeon X1350
You will have problems with that, will work with vesa driver.

Dell Latitude D630 / IBM ThinkPad T61 are one of the best laptops overall and best for FreeBSD.

CPU: Get Intel T7xxx / T8xxx / T9xxx series CPU
GFX: Get Intel X3100 (uses 9W while Intel GMA 950 uses 13.5W)

[gelraen]

Hello.

I'm going to buy HP 6820s laptop, and I want to know, can I run FreeBSD on it. I googled, but didn't find any information.
And with Linux this model work perfect, out from the box.


Hi,

I have HP 6820s and use it with FreeBSD almost year.
First, there was some troubles with DRM in 7.0, Mobility Radeon X1350 not supported by included version of DRM, so I've installed new version from git-repository manually.
Now I use 8.0-CURRENT, but still there's no hardware 3D-acceleration... Maybe I'm doing something wrong...
Wireless card seems to work perfectly with wpi(4) driver.
Also microphone doesn't work, but I haven't spend much time on this.

And there are some troubles with ACPI, which I'm currently trying to solve. acpiconf -s 3 puts computer in sleep state, but cann't normally return back, after pressing power button it shows just blank screen with blinking text cursor.

As for bluetooth, card-reader - I've not even tried to make it work, cause I don't need it.

Oh, I almost forget about powerd(8). Without it CPU always working at maximum frequency, and active cooling produces loud noise. And when I run Fallout 2 under wine, it fully loads one CPU core and CPU temperature goes up to 100°C ! At that time, normal working temperature is in range 65-80...

[gelraen]

You will have problems with that, will work with vesa driver.

I use xf86-video-ati-6.9.0, it works some better than vesa

[vermaden]

I use xf86-video-ati-6.9.0, it works some better than vesa

That depends on used card, using gtkperf benchmark I got almost identical results on radeon driver and vesa driver with ATI 9600AGP card.

If you want good supported GFX card, then get Intel, but stay away from Intel X3000 this one is not supported, but X3100 works flawlessly.

[voice]

Thanks for your replies, and information.