Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 01:14:55 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hosokawa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A truly losing laptop for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <19980131011455.04660@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <19622.886160352@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 03:39:12AM -0800 References: <19622.886160352@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 03:39:12AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >http://www.toshiba.com/tais/csd/products/portable/tecra/featured/index.htm > >And it's sort of sad because this is the kind of *high end* laptop >you'd like to see more FreeBSD users using. Unfortunately, according >to one BETA tester, he can't even get FreeBSD to recognise the serial >ports on the thing much less the more complex peripherals. In fact, >it seems to hold the current record for the most things that don't >work under FreeBSD on a single machine. :-) > >Anyone have any clues about getting one of these beasties to work? >Do the Nomads have any plans for it? Thanks! One of our (XFree86's) S3 driver experts has one of these and is working on support for the ViRGE/MX chip it uses. He is running Linux on it. I know that someone else is running Solaris 2.6 on one. I think they've setup a mailing list for discussing this laptop. Ah, yes, here are the details: ]]To subscribe to the Tecra/Linux list, for discussion of issues and ]]problems in using Linux on Tecra laptops (I'm leaving it open to all ]]tecras for now, since I think most are common problems along the whole ]]product line, and certain model-specific problems are already handled by ]]their own list (like this here one!)), send mail to ]]majordomo@cse.ogi.edu, with the body (don't bother with a subject): ]] ]] ]] subscribe tecra-linux my-email-address BTW, I have no personal interest in Toshiba or these laptops, and have never seen or used one myself. I'd just like to see XFree86 support as much hardware as possible, including the ViRGE/MX chipset :-). David
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