From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 26 13:08:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA19544 for mobile-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (root@gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA19536 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:08:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.gvr.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) id WAA15575; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:06:36 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199711262106.WAA15575@gvr.gvr.org> Subject: Re: What does "unsupported" really mean? In-Reply-To: <199711252248.JAA00367@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Nov 26, 97 09:18:51 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 22:06:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: jose@dial.pipex.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mike Smith wrote: > When you're buying a laptop, there are two *critical* things to look at: > > - The pcic type (PCMCIA interface chip). Toshiba, Dell, NEC, Sharp, > and IBM all use parts that are compatible with FreeBSD. Acer (at > least) does not. YMMV; if at all possible, boot a FreeBSD kernel > built with pcic support in order to find out what you're looking at. > > - Video chipset. The undisputed 'best supported' chipset at the > moment is the C&T 655xx family. If you are willing to buy the > Accelerated X server then you can look at units using the Cirrus 754x > and NeoMagic chipsets. Avoid the rest, as X will not work. > I am using XFree 3.2 on a: Cirrus CL-GD7548 (on a Compaq Armada 1130) Works just fine. It seems that 3.3 works even better. -Guido