From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 4 17:11:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06297 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:11:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06287 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id MAA10794; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:10:46 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <19990105121046.F10410@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:10:46 +1100 From: David Dawes To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 770 References: <19990105112933.A10547@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199901050047.RAA23841@pluto.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199901050047.RAA23841@pluto.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:39:10PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:39:10PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >>On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 04:48:30PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >>>I'm considering purchasing one of these guys and I'm hoping that someone >>>out there can confirm getting FreeBSD up and running on it. It looks like >>>XFree86 supports the Trident video chipset it uses and I would expect >> >>I'm not sure that it does. Which chip is it? There is preliminary >>(untested) support for a new Trident laptop chipset about to go into >>our development version, and I've seen at least one report that the >>Thinkpad 770X uses that one. >> >>David > >The specs I have say it uses the Trident Cyber9397DVD chipset. A report I saw today indicates that the chip has a different PCI ID from the earlier (non-DVD?) Cyber9397. It may be otherwise compatible, but I haven't seen that confirmed. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message