I suggest you obtain the specs of that laptop and see (or ask here) whether the hardware is supported. Toshiba Satellites are generally good quality laptops (albeit a bit too large for my taste), but if the components are too new it's possible there are no (good) drivers for them yet.VampirD said:Any advice to run FreeBSD on a Toshiba Satellite C645-SP4201L?
KDE4 appears to be in the ports tree so it should be available, but do keep the following in mind:VampirD said:I would like to use KDE4 on it.
HarryE said:Try PC-BSD.
VampirD said:can I install FreeBSD into an external usb drive?
none1@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x815110ec chip=0x817210ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller'
class = network
Xorg -configure
cp /root/xorg.conf.net /etc/X11/xorg.conf
reboot
cd /usr/ports/x11/xrandr && make install clean
xrandr
$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 1680 x 1680
VGA1 disconnected
DVI0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 434mm x 270mm
1680x1050 59.9*+
1280x1024 75.0 59.9
1152x864 74.8
1024x768 75.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
VGA2 disconnected
DVI1 connected 1680x1050+0+0 434mm x 270mm
1680x1050 59.9*+
1280x1024 75.0 59.9
1152x864 74.8
1024x768 75.1 60.0
800x600 75.0 60.3
640x480 75.0 60.0
720x400 70.1
DVI0=1024x768
DVI1=1024x768
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Virtual 2048 768
EndSubSection