Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 00:26:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD/X11 on NEC Daylite? Message-ID: <15280.12140.840758.895895@rast.cisco.com>
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A little while ago I asked about FreeBSD on an NEC LaVie MX2. I have now come to the understanding that this is actually marketed outside of Japan as the NEC Daylite. I'm wondering if anyone has gotten their hands on one of these and tried FreeBSD/XFree86 on it. Here are the issues I'm curious about: 1) It comes with a USB CD-ROM drive and no floppy drive. I'm wondering if the FreeBSD installation code will be able to read from this. 2) It has a builtin 10/100 ethernet. Is this usable under FreeBSD? 3) The screen used an ATI Mobility-M chip set. I've seen some information about patches for XFree86 4.0.1 in order to make this work and I've seen other info saying the X server crashes on the LaVie MX under Linux about once every week or so. Any info there? 4) If I have to remove the hard drive and install onto it using another computer, is it compatible with other IDE systems? The reason I ask is that I currently have an AST Ascentia-P, an IBM Thinkpad 755C, and a Libretto 110CT, and the IDE drives between all three can't be booted on any of the others! (I understand there's a pin issue with the Thinkpad, but I don't understand the problems between the Libretto and the AST - maybe BIOS version?) Other systems which I'm considering are: * Sony Picturebook (it's small - I like that) * Libretto L2 (small also - builtin ethernet) but I really want something which is visible in direct sunlight. Any help, pointers, or other info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for all of the help I've gotten from this list over the years! /raj To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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