From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Aug 21 12:26:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA14072 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blizzard.wise.edt.ericsson.se (blizzard-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14065; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from erlang (erlang.ericsson.se [147.214.36.16]) by blizzard.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.7.5/8.7.3/glacier-0.9) with SMTP id VAA24114; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:22:57 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from townsend.ericsson.se by erlang (SMI-8.6/LME-2.2.4) id VAA19182; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:22:44 +0200 Received: from townsend by townsend.ericsson.se (SMI-8.6/client-1.5) id VAA20514; Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:23:12 +0200 Message-Id: <199708211923.VAA20514@townsend.ericsson.se> To: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: kent@erlang.ericsson.se Subject: Re: recommendation for FreeBSD laptop configuration for sound production? Reply-To: kent@erlang.ericsson.se In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:55:54 -0700" References: <199708211803.LAA08876@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.70 on Emacs 19.34.1 X-URL: http://www.ericsson.se/erlang Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 21:23:12 +0200 From: Kent Boortz Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU wrote: > To summarize, I'm looking for recommendations for a laptop with: > > good sound card > >1G disk > SCSI > reasonable # of external ports Make sure that the Laptop you buy is not only supported by a X server but that it supports it *well*. I have a Compaq LTE 5380 (great internal 1024x768 but unfortunately only 256 colors). The graphics chip, Cirrus 7548, is supported by XFree86 but it is not working ok on this laptop. /kgb