From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jun 1 22:18:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-mobile Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA00869 for mobile-outgoing; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:18:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA00864; Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:18:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA26867; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:09:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606020539.PAA26867@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Laptop hardware FOUND To: hardware@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:09:05 +0930 (CST) Cc: mobile@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After much searching (and no end of fighting for the funds), I've finally got my hands on a portable FreeBSD dream machine. The unit in question is the very-new Sharp PC9000. (Note that the 9030 and 9070 are implicitly OK too, I just couldn't get the extra cash 8( ) Basic spec : P100, 256K L2 cache, EDO DRAM. 1GB EIDE disk, 6x ATAPI CDrom. 800x600 passive-matrix LCD, Cirrus 7xxx PCI chipset. Soundblaster-16 clone w/stereo speakers & microphone built in The 9030 gives you an active-matrix display and a P120. The 9070 has a different display again (I think), 16M rather than 8, and two batteries. The config I ended up with (9000 with carry case and 16M total memory) comes in under AUD$5000, beating out the Toshiba 410CS by a comfortable margin. General ramblings: I installed the 2.2-960501-SNAP on the machine (via PPP/ftp after PPP/NFS failed). The machine comes with W95 preinstalled (yecch), but they're kind enough to also supply all the bits required to _reinstall_ it (including the bundled apps and Sharp-specific drivers); two CD's, boot floppy, step-by-step instructions. Top marks. The CD works fine, even after it's gone into spin-down snooze mode. Likewise the disk (spin-up from total sleep only takes a couple of seconds) : wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , 32-bit, multi-block-16 wd0: 1037MB (1214864 sectors), 2108 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/s wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): , removable, intr, iordy wcd0: 1033Kb/sec, 128Kb cache, audio play, 256 volume levels, popup As yet, I haven't got X up, but 3.1.2B and onwards of XFree86 claims to support the Cirrus chip. APM status is unclear : the boot probe reports: apm: found APM BIOS version 1.1 # apmconf -e Unknown Original APM event 0x10 Unknown Original APM event 0xf Unknown Original APM Event 0xe Unknown Original APM Event 0xd # zzz (beep, screen blanks, beep, screen comes back) resumed from suspended mode (slept 00:00:02) (close cover, system beeps and suspends correctly) (open cover, system wakes up OK) # apm (kernel traps) ... so there seems to be a bit left to do there 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[