From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 7 19:22:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 921C237BBF8 for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 19:22:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id LAA64640; Mon, 8 May 2000 11:52:27 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:52:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Harry Woodward-Clarke Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: question on Dell Latitude laptops Message-ID: <20000508115227.O61921@freebie.lemis.com> References: <39161984.DAC5F078@S1.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <39161984.DAC5F078@S1.com> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 1:33:56 +0000, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > Hi ya, > > I've just been informed that as of next month I will be getting a > laptop: "Dell Latitude CPx, 450MHx PIII, 128Mb RAM, 6.4GB HDD, 13.3 > screen, FDD, CD-ROM, 10/100 Dell/3Com PC-card NIC, V90 PC-Card modem." > > So, has anyone had success on installing FreeBSD 3.3 on such a > beast? I've done it on a CPi with no problems. But I'd recommend a newer release of FreeBSD now. > Any hints, tips, tricks, gotcha's I need to be aware of? Not really. On the CPi you need the following in your kernel config to get sound to work: device pcm0 at isa? port ? irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 The video card on the CPi is a NeoMagic, which is now supported by XFree86. IIRC there was nothing special needed to install it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message