From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 10 19:15: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from w2xo.pgh.pa.us (18.gibs5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.184.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D0437B40F for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 19:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (xolaptop [192.168.5.9]) by w2xo.pgh.pa.us (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f9B40Q758614; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:00:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from durham@jcdurham.com) Message-Id: <200110110400.f9B40Q758614@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Jim Durham To: Gavin Kenny , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD run on Dell Notebooks? Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:15:29 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <20011010154532.53098.qmail@web20004.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011010154532.53098.qmail@web20004.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 10 October 2001 11:45 am, Gavin Kenny wrote: > Hi, > > I need your help, My company has offered to buy me a > new notebook to take round and show off FreeBSD and > the work I have been doing using it. > > The current company standard laptop is the Dell > Latitude C600. Has anyone got FreeBSD running on one > of these? Any problems? > > I'm far more likly to see the laptop appear if I can > use the standard config. However I don't want > something that isn't supported yet. > It is running well on this Inspiron 4000. I had to use Xfree86 version 4.03 to support the ATI Rage Mobility video chip set. I have Ethernet, SCSI, Modem and USB working. Running 4.3 and KDE 2.2.1 . -Jim Durham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message