Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 21:48:21 -0500 From: Jerry Dunham <dunham@dunham.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Dany Cayouette <danyc@playground.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question on Dell Latitude laptops Message-ID: <20000509214821.I2590@rider.dunham.org> In-Reply-To: <20000509173956.V75157@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 05:39:57PM %2B0930 References: <39161984.DAC5F078@S1.com> <20000508115227.O61921@freebie.lemis.com> <39178589.8F1DD08B@playground.net> <20000509173956.V75157@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Tue, 9 May 2000 at 17:39:57 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 23:27:06 -0400, Dany Cayouette wrote: > > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 1:33:56 +0000, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > >>> Hi ya, > >>> > >>> I've just been informed that as of next month I will be getting a > >>> laptop: "Dell Latitude CPx, 450MHx PIII, 128Mb RAM, 6.4GB HDD, 13.3 > >>> screen, FDD, CD-ROM, 10/100 Dell/3Com PC-card NIC, V90 PC-Card modem." > >>> > >>> So, has anyone had success on installing FreeBSD 3.3 on such a > >>> beast? > >> > >> I've done it on a CPi with no problems. But I'd recommend a newer > >> release of FreeBSD now. > >> > >>> Any hints, tips, tricks, gotcha's I need to be aware of? > >> > >> Not really. On the CPi you need the following in your kernel config > >> to get sound to work: > >> > >> device pcm0 at isa? port ? irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 > >> > >> The video card on the CPi is a NeoMagic, which is now supported by > >> XFree86. IIRC there was nothing special needed to install it. > > > > I also have a few questions on a Dell Latitude CPiA. > > Hmm. I wonder what the difference is between a CPi and a CPiA. More than you'd think looking at them, but they are both NeoMagic. > > I run dedicated FreeBSD systems on a couple of old desktop at home > > (486 & PII) but never tried a laptop, yet. (and never tried > > dual-boot) I have a Dell CPiA running Win95 and I was hoping to make > > it a dual boot system with FreeBSD. How does/can FreeBSD support a > > 'docked' and 'undocked' setting? > > I've never used a dock, but Bill Fumerola has. It works fine as long > as you don't try to dock or undock while the system is running; that > caused panics last time I saw it (last October). You can't dock and undock with Microsoft without clobbering the OS, either. > > How do you tell the NeoMagic to switch from the 'dock' scrren > > connector to the TFT Display? > > The same way as you do under Microsoft. Fn and F7 (I think). It's > marked on the function key, anyway. Yup. That's independent of OS. > > The laptop has a 6 Gig Hard Drive. a 2Gig partition (C: drive) where most > > of the applications are and the rest of the disk is one 4Gig partition that > > is split into 2 'logical DOS' partition D: and E:. I have most of my data > > on the D: drive. I am not sure if I can do this but maybe someone can help > > me here... Somebody said I might be able to do this with a program called > > Partition Magic. I would like to 'free' my E: partition and install a 2Gig > > FreeBSD partition. I am not sure if this can be done because it is a DOS > > logical partition. > > Partition magic will do it, I believe. That's my understanding, also. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org To vacillate, or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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