On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 03:53:52PM -0400, STeve Andre' wrote: > Over time, the parts that don't work will likely get drivers, but if you > need a laptop that just runs right now, I would find a way to test it.
Seconded. Try to find a way to test it! My nephew gave me his Dell M4500 when he got a new job. It was a couple of years old, but with an i7 processor and overall decent specs I looked forward to try OpenBSD on it and hopefully letting it replace my old ThinkPad T500. However, I couldn't barely get the installer working (the keyboard started repeating every keypress) and the dmesg was full of references to unsupported hardware. It might have been a bad snapshot or something, but I gave up after a couple of tries and decided to let it become my new Windows-machine reserved for family and friends dropping by. Cheers, Airling > --STeve Andre' > > On 04/15/15 14:28, Shaun Reiger wrote: > >Hi Ray, I haven't used a Dell Precision M4800 with OBSD yet, but I found > >that under PCBSD it should work. Given OBSD has very good laptop support I > >believe everything should be detected. I have included a link to the PCBSD > >site where I found the your laptop listed. > > > >http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Hardware > > > >Cheers, > > > >Shaun > > > >On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Raymond Lillard <r...@prosysmeg.com> wrote: > > > >>I am considering the purchase of a Dell Precision M4800 laptop with > >>the intention of installing OpenBSD on it. Has anyone here ran > >>OBSD on one of these? I will configure it with an AMD FirePro M5100. > >> > >>Google has fail to find anyone who has tried this. > >> > >>Thanks > >>Ray
