From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Jan 30 23:22:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from kirk.giovannelli.it (kirk.giovannelli.it [194.184.65.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86D7D14D86 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 23:21:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmarco@giovannelli.it) Received: from suzy (modem05.masternet.it [194.184.65.15]) by kirk.giovannelli.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA10542 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:21:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gmarco@giovannelli.it) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000131080012.015941f0@194.184.65.4> X-Sender: gmarco@194.184.65.4 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 08:19:32 +0100 To: mobile@freebsd.org From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Any advice on Asus M8x00 ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I think I'll receive an Asus M8300 (it is not a choice that is depending on my willing). But I am very scared about the gardware it comes in these notebook because I think there is a very few things that will be supported by FreeBSD. Please let me know something more about FreeBSD and these components: 1) Integrated Modem/ether: Lucent 1646 DSP Integrated mobile Modem/Fax/LAN module board design (Manufacture's option) Hardware (DSP) V.90 modem and Intel 82559 10/100 Fast-Ethernet controller chip n Video-conferencing I/F V.80 Compliance AC'97 2.1 and WfM 2.0 supported The modem is seen by Windog as WinLt (Lucent Tech.). I think it is not supported now (and in the near future). Ethernet board is the same I fear... 2) I can try to use my pccards modem/ether but the slot is: RICOH R5C475II PCMCIA 2.1 compliant, supports one Type II slot 32-bit PC CardBus architecture and Zoomed VideoTM supported and I am scared that perhaps it is not supported, Any info ? 3) The video card is: SMI 710 2D VGA chip 128 bit graphic accelerationg engine; 4 MB video memory embedded Dual view and dual application in Windows 95/98/NT with LCD and CRT independent resolution and refresh rate Portrait or landscape display to allowfor CRT 90-degree CRT rotation. Even if windows detects it as Lynx (or similar) as I remember well... Info ? Any news of Xfree/Xig/Metrolink support ? 4) The Sound card: AC ' 97 CODEC AD1881 Built-in AC'97 stereo sound, with 3D sound effects Full duplex audio Built-in stereo speaker and microphone I can leave without sound and I think I'll do with this notebook... :-) More info at: http://www.asus.com/products/notebook/M8000/spec.html If someone can help me with these informations I can try to convince the company to change idea at least for me :-) And if the situation is so bad please suggest a good laptop with at least a 13.3 (1024x768) lcd in the range of 2500-2800 USD that it is well supported by FreeBSD. Thanks for attention and sorry for the long post. Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message