On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:30:54PM +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I was about to buy two thinkpads which are often suggested when the > OpenBSD laptop question is raised but the 93 in stock have disappeared > since saturday, aaargh. > > There are still core2duos and lesser spec'd systems available which > has prompted me to ask the question I had pondered on. > > Does anyone know what the latest full screen (! widescreen) AMD laptops > would be that have excellent compatibility with OpenBSD or if 2Ghz is > the highest spec non core 2 duo and non widescreen reliable laptop > suitable for OpenBSD available? >
If no idea which kind of graphics card the machine that you're considering has. This is probably the key point. Stay away from nVidia mobile chipsets and from recent AMD integated graphics. Since AMD's commercial names vs chipset names correspondance is a not clear to me, I don't know exactly how to check if a given AMD chipset is supported or not. It's also difficult since the driver we have in xenocara has code for newer chips which is is not enabled on OpenBSD because it requires KMS. So don't trust the list in radeon(4) blindly. HD6xxx are for sure not supported. As always the best is to be able to get your hands on a demo machine and try to boot it from a CD or USB stick to have a look at dmesg. -- Matthieu Herrb
