From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Nov 1 23:19:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (fe6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A46B37B403 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:19:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from i8k.babbleon.org ([66.57.85.154]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:15:06 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian T.Schellenberger To: Christoph Kukulies , Lukas Ertl Subject: Re: Inspiron 4100/8100? Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:14:58 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011026233319.R477-100000@localhost.localdomain> <20011027152841.B88633@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20011027152841.B88633@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01110122145800.01001@i8k.babbleon.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) http://www.babbleon.org -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message