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Laptop recommendations
<rant> I have three laptops and none of them do what I want on openbsd. Two won't suspend and on the other one the wifi isn't supported. HP with a whitelist so you can't replace the wifi </rant>
What's a geek to do...exactly, get a fourth laptop Any recommendations on a laptop that's fully supported? I know that thinkpads are very popular. I'm looking for a second hand affordable one. Anybody?
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Think pads are popular, but HP is good as well, I have 2 and have never had any problems with the wifi nor suspend.
But, with out any better details about yours, there is not much any one can do to help either. Even the more popular "Thinkpads", will not work right if OpenBsd is not configured correctly,etc,... In notice your signature: Quote:
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==== edited ====== Also , this thread has many laptops listed, including several HP, [url]http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1880&page=9] Quote:
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Great, thanks , and I saw your new topic, that looks good , sorry I don't have much time at the moment, but any way thanks for responding and posting the details .
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Then make sure to add your own dmesgs to it. dmesgd only works when everyone chips in.
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Greetings all,
like the OP I also need a new laptop. I saw ibara's link to the dmesg, but I am not sure how to read them to determine the laptop's capabilities. Any help would be appreciated. Kindest regards, M |
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Well, NYC*BUG is a dmesg database/repository.
You can use it to query the repo about a specific computer model, and if someone already added the dmseg, you can access and read it. Or you can query all OpenBSD (or FreeBSD, ...) supported computers... At the end, it will require a bit of work, reading the wanted dmesg to check if everything is supported But it permits you to avoid bad surprises.
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ThinkPad W500 P8700 6GB HD3650 - faultry ThinkStation P700 2x2620v3 32GB 1050ti 3xSSD 1xHDD Last edited by LeFrettchen; 17th June 2019 at 08:40 PM. Reason: clarity |
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For what its worth my older Lenovo T-430 works fine with OpenBSD
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dmesgd is a service we happen to provide that holds a user-submitted and user-searchable collection of real-world dmesg buffers. |
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Hi LeFrettchen, ibara,
thank you for the replies. Yes, I understand, what the database show, my question was how do I interpret the dmesg? Also, what would be the recommended video chip-set - AMD, Intel? Kindest regards, M |
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I just posted my dev machine dmesg: https://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=5016
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And that's really all you need to know as a consumer to extract meaningful information out of a dmesg. If you didn't know what a particular device was, you can look it up in section 4 of the manual. For example, if you didn't know that iwm0 was Intel WiFi, you could run Code:
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Another interesting information you can get from dmesg posts is how well the hardware is supported by an OpenBSD version.
The words "not configured" tell that there was no driver in the kernel that could be attached. Make sure, before buying a computer, that this is not something you need. Example here with efib: https://man.openbsd.org/efifb Another thing to check, the graphic card if you intend to use X. Here this is an Intel HD 620 (a GPU): https://man.openbsd.org/intel For a Radeon, it would have been: https://man.openbsd.org/radeon In general, OpenBSD works better with Intel chips in this regard. |
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However porting large drivers from Linux is time consuming process and AMD's GPU codebase is very, very large. It is still better choice to buy Intel-based laptop for OpenBSD at the moment.
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I've had OBSD running on my Acer Aspire One 722 & 532 netbooks, my HP-G62, an old Advent dual core, & nearly all my desktops.
If your built in wifi chip isn't recognized use a USB stick wifi or a USB desktop wifi unit that is supported, it's worked for me on occasions where the inbuilt wifi didn't work.
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