From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 2 16: 7:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (monochrome.org [206.64.112.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F0E37B528 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:07:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA72508 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:08:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:08:36 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@mail To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Toshiba In-Reply-To: <20000302163713.H86224@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > William Tremere wrote: > > > For learning purposes I am intending to use an old Thshiba Satellite > > with Active Matrix screen. I am wondering if this is supported? > > Well, there's only one way to find out. Install it and see if it > works. If it doesn't, post any specific problems you have here, I'm sure > someone will be able to help. What he said. BUT - in my (admittedly meager) experience, desktops are easier to deal with than laptops, FreeBSD-wise. If I were looking for a "play around and learn it" system, I'd prefer to grab an old 486 or slow pentium machine off the junk heap, rather than deal with a laptop. Just my 5 yen... -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org [place witty saying here] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message