Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 11:15:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: ajohns@TurnAround.com.au, mestery@visi.com, dann@greycat.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended laptops for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990628111524.K15144@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199906280130.SAA29932@athena.tera.com>; from Gary Kline on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 06:30:03PM -0700 References: <19990628104403.G15144@freebie.lemis.com> <199906280130.SAA29932@athena.tera.com>
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On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 18:30:03 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > According to Greg Lehey: >> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] >> >> On Monday, 28 June 1999 at 10:35:49 +1000, Andrew Johns wrote: >>> [snip] >>>> On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Dann Lunsford wrote: >>>> >> All current Dell laptops use the NeoMagic chipset, which used to be a >> problem because NeoMagic didn't release programming documentation. >> They've done so now, however, and the latest version of XFree86 >> includes a driver which works pretty well on my Latitude CPi. I'm >> told that the Inspiron series works pretty well with FreeBSD, too. > > A friend who got a free Dell Latitude for work was wondering; > this info should interest him. > > The PAO list is interesting--especially since my 3.2 CD's > just arrived--but the PAO information seems dated.. I've > seen a `UMAX' l'top that would be just small enough (12.1") > to be worth buying at around $1000US. But I've seen > nothing about this or other off-brand laptops. There are efforts under way to incorporate the PAO code into the mainstream. Previously, PAO worked on laptops, but not necessarily on larger machines. I'm running 3.2-RELEASE on my Latitude at the moment. I needed to change /etc/pccard.conf to reflect the cards I put in (a 3Com 3C589C and a no-name modem with a Cirrus Logic chipset). > Is there any way of telling whether any generic laptops would > work with FBSD? There's a web page at http://home.jp.FreeBSD.org/~toshi/PAO/LTS.txt, and another at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~dkulp/fbsd/laptop.html. Apart from that, it's " suck it and see", I'm afraid. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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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