Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:14:58 -0500 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inspiron 4100/8100? Message-ID: <01110122145800.01001@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20011027152841.B88633@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20011026233319.R477-100000@localhost.localdomain> <20011027152841.B88633@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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On Saturday 27 October 2001 09:28, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:46:07PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Dell Austria has currently some nice offers for Inspiron 4100 and 8100
> > notebooks, and I'm really thinking about buying one.
> >
> > My question is: do they work with FreeBSD, and if yes, how do they
> > perform? Are the integrated peripherals (IrDA, LAN,...) supported? And
> > what about X? (The 4100 has a ATI Mobility Radeon built in, the 8100 a
> > nVidia GeForce2 Go; I didn't find a lot about these chips on the XFree
> > homepage.)
>
> As for the GeForce2 GO I must say No no and no. I have FreeBSD running
> on the Inspiron 8000 (which is just 100MHz less than the 8100)
> but there is presently no chance to get an X11 screen for FreeBSD.
The i8000 (and I think maybe the i4100) can be configured with ATI RAGE
Mobility chips, which work quite nicely with X & FreeBSD. I'm using one
right now, and 1400x1050 is very nice.
They can even swap the video chip for you; I had a friend who didn't get what
he ordered & they're swapping his for free, but it might be possible to it
for a fee even if you originally ordered the wrong thing.
(Nvidia: just say NO.) You also might look into a refurbished i8000 with an
ATI chip.
But if GeForce GO is the only choice, you should call Dell & tell them why
you can't buy a Dell, and then buy something else without an Nvidia chip.
>
> And I doubt there will be a chance ever due to the closed architecture
> of the NVIDIA chip.
>
> ALl they offer is Linux drivers and they released another driver
> for Linux in September (Release 1541). I don't want to praise or
> advertise for Linux here but I have Redhat 7.1, FreeBSD (No X11)
> Windows ME, Windows 2000 running on the Inspiron 8000 (all bootable
> through the Redhat graphics screen bootloader - ick, my son recently
> said when he saw this: Dad, what is this, are you gone mad to have
> this Redhat screen on your notebook :-). But I was in need to
> run OpenGL applications under a unix-look-similar.
>
> > regards,
> > le
> >
> > --
> > Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at
> > WWW-Redaktion Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073
> > Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140
> > der Universität Wien
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