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> > Try dell. Inspiron 8200 seems great. Of course you must be careful with the
> > hardware, but for me there is another important feature that I take care
> > every time I buy a laptop: keyboard. Today, there is a annoying tendency to
> > put unuseful keyboards on laptops.
> > Inspirons 8200 are great, but they weigh so much. If you are going to use it
> > at your work maybe you don't mind that the laptop weigh four-five kg.
> > 
> 
> Are all it's devices (screen network, modem et all) well supported under
> FreeBSD?
>
	I have had an 8200 since April last year, hard drive went on it
last week so I had to re-install 4.7 from scratch. I use the built in ethernet
(xl0) and have used the docking station ethernet (xl1). I didn't get the 
built in modem, since it was a WINMODEM. I mistakenly bought a Cardbus 
PCMCIA modem, so I couldn't use that. I ended up with an IBM X-jack PCMCIA
from my old Thinkpad. I got it with the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go card in it.
The first incarnation I used the "nv" drivers, this time around I'm using the
Nvidia supplied drivers. I'm running in 1400x1050 with 122 pixel clock,
64.89 H sync, 59.98 V sync. The only problem I seem to have is with the mouse.
I keep getting :

Feb  6 21:10:56 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000).
Feb  6 21:10:56 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (1).
Feb  6 21:10:56 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000).
Feb  6 21:10:56 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (2).
Feb  6 21:10:57 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000).
Feb  6 21:10:57 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: re-enable the mouse.
Feb  6 21:10:57 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000).
Feb  6 21:10:57 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: discard a byte (4).
Feb  6 21:11:01 himinbjorg /kernel: psmintr: delay too long; resetting byte coun
t

	and the mouse runs rampant and does nasty stuff. If anyone has a
suggestion. I tried a few things, still won't stop it.

	Otherwise, besides the deep groove in my shoulder, I love this beast.
(Well, except for losing a HD after 8 months)

		Tuc/TTSG Internet Services, Inc.

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