From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 4 17:27:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08015 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08008 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 17:27:54 -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 SAA09000; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:27:20 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id SAA01707; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:27:20 -0700 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:27:20 -0700 Message-Id: <199901050127.SAA01707@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Dawes Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 770 In-Reply-To: <19990105121046.F10410@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> References: <19990105112933.A10547@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199901050047.RAA23841@pluto.plutotech.com> <19990105121046.F10410@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >>>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. For what it's worth: .... Xi Graphics is pleased to announce fully accelerated support for the IBM Thinkpad 770X, which uses a Trident Cyber 9397 DVD chipset. This update provides fully accelerated support at 8, 16, and 24 bits per pixel. ... Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message