On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:55:44AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > Because I'm a mug, and that they look nice, I'm considering a new Vaio. > The model that has me wetting myself in anticipation is that VGN-A > 197XP, which has a 1.8GHz centrino with a 2mb cache, a 17" 1920x1200 > screen and an 80gb harddrive. It's lovely. > > The big question is how well does FreeBSD run on it? I absolutely need > to have suspend/resume support as it only has a single battery with a > life of around 2.5 hours (no second battery slot :(). > > Has anyone tried FreeBSD on anything like this? What's the chances that > the wireless 802.11g and bluetooth will work? A followup. My girlfriend went to the US recently and brought me back the american version of this one the VGN-A290. It's lovely and under 5.3 the power management works wonderfully :) Thanks ACPI guys. Joe. ps. it's not quite the same spec as the VGN-A 297, missing the blue tooth basically :(. Still it's pretty nice though :). -- Josef Karthauser (joe_at_tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================
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