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From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, hardware@neutron.neutron.org
Subject: Re: max coolness laptop?
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I hope you don't mid that I redirected this to freebsd-mobile as
it seems more appropriate and you're likely to get better
answers here.

> dear bsd people
> you have given me good info in the past.
> have you heard anyone successfully installing say, 2.2.2 and PAO
> on a chembook 9780 ?
> thanks
> neutron.

I've got a Chembook 6800XL with 14.1" display and I am *real*
happy with it.  I'm running -current on it, but 2.2-stable
should work on it.  The 9780 looks to have the same chipsets:

  C&T 65554/65555 (6800XL/9780)
  TI 1131 PCMCI

for the display and PCMCIA.  

You might have a problem installing from CD-ROM.  My ATAPI
CD-ROM seems to take a little longer waiting for the command
phase, and a one line fix to the kernel source fixed this
problem.  I think Soren was going to commit this change but
it was only found a couple of weeks ago, so it won't be available
in any installation disks you have.

Oh yeah, support for the TI 1131 chipset was added after
FreeBSD-2.5 was released, so you'll have to do without 
PCMCIA support until you upgrade to -stable.

I've really got to thank Nate and the Nomads (sounds like a
bad rock-group from the 60's) for notebook suppor.  Good
work guys!

Dan Eischen
deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org