Date: 15 Nov 1999 12:21:51 -0500 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> To: cmonster <chuck@2inches.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ThinkPad 560 Message-ID: <lfr9hrzn4g.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: cmonster's message of "Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:22:40 -0800" References: <v04210100b4525c39d123@[207.44.238.234]>
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On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:22:40 -0800, cmonster <chuck@2inches.com> said: cmonster> Hi all. I recovered and old ThinkPad 560 10U from my office cmonster> trash pool. I'd really like to put FreeBSD on it. =46rom Trash? Bummer. I have a 560X that has been running 2.2.X and now 3.3-STABLE happily. Especially now that XFree86 supports the NeoMagic video chipset. cmonster> My questions are these? Should I go with the PAO or the 3.3 cmonster> release, or current, or stable? 3.3 works for me. I expect -STABLE and -RELEASE to be similar. cmonster> The 3.3 release recognizes my 3com 3C589D-TP etherlink III, cmonster> and i can install via ftp. When I tried to PAO-ize the cmonster> kernel, next time I booted it said invalid entry in rc.conf cmonster> file and dropped to single user mode, losing half my files cmonster> system (everything but /) . So don't PAO-ize? :-) cmonster> Before the PAO disaster, I tried unsuccesfully to get cmonster> x-windows to work alos. Any suggestions there? According to cmonster> IBM specs, it has a trident CYBER9382 chipset, and a DSTN cmonster> passive matrix 800x600 display, with 1M video ram. Hmm, mine has the NeoMagic. Before drivers were available for that, I used a "generic" SVGA driver and it did 800x600 just fine. Might want to try the simplest thing first. cmonster> And finally, will there be, or is there now, support for the cmonster> Linksys Etherfast 10/100 + 56k combo card? Can't help here. I tried soemthing like this when I first got mine and I believe the card shared the same interrupt for both, which FreeBSD couldn't handle (at the time, don't know about now. So I got separate Ether and modem cards, and a SCSI card, since I figured I wouldn't be using Ether and Modem at the same time. = To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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