From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 21 11:20:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA03559 for mobile-outgoing; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:20:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA03543 for ; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 11:20:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA28688; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:20:30 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA14961; Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:20:28 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:20:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199711211920.MAA14961@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Nate Williams Cc: Steve Passe , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hi-laptops In-Reply-To: <199711211916.MAA14952@mt.sri.com> References: <199711211631.JAA04433@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> <199711211916.MAA14952@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> I am shopping for a laptop and am considering the ibm 560x. It seems to use >> a different graphics chipset than the earlier 560s. Has anyone tried to run >> freebsd and X11 on this model? > > If the 560X is the new CardBus machine, then it's not supported in > FreeBSD. Newer CardBus/PCI machines are not supported 'out of the box' > yet. The same goes for new 760's if they are also CardBus. ps. This is starting to really annoy me, since the PCCARD support in FreeBSD is just starting to get stable, and now they go off and change the hardware on me so it only works on old hardware. :( Nate