Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:53:46 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: J_Shevland@TurnAround.com.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inspiron 7000 Laptop Support Message-ID: <19981126115346.J67961@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <003801be18d7$37e43310$6e01a8c0@simbarchi.turnaround.com.au>; from Joe Shevland on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 11:53:44AM %2B1100 References: <003801be18d7$37e43310$6e01a8c0@simbarchi.turnaround.com.au>
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On Thursday, 26 November 1998 at 11:53:44 +1100, Joe Shevland wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering whether the Dell Inspiron 7000 laptops are supported by > FreeBSD? I can provide specs or more info if needed. I'll be devastated if > not; its going to be a little hummer and I want to give its life at least a > little freedom/usability with a FBSD partition when I get it. They work well with the possible exception of the display, which is probably a NeoMagic chip. For a long time, NeoMagic refused to give programming details for their chips, so XFree86 didn't support it. XFree86 3.3.3 has just been released (last couple of days), and it may have support for it. If not, it's coming Real Soon Now, and there are other ways to get the driver. Check out http://www.mnsinc.com/js/Neomagic.html for one. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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