Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:42:30 +1000 From: Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: notebook compatibility with FreeBSD Message-ID: <4A25658B.000E5010.00@notes.aipo.gov.au>
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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, The critical feature for FreeBSD/XFree86 is the video chipset - if you want X Windows. The Dell has a Neomagic video chipset. Neomagic. according to the XFree86 project do not supply programming documents, so there is *no* X server for the Neomagics graphics cards. Brand Video Known working with FreeBSD/PAO Toshiba CT 65550 Yes 2.2.5 & December patches Gateway 9000 CT 65555 ? but looks very promising IBM ? ? Compaq ? ? Nec ? ? You will find useful info (including a laptop survey) at http://www.jp.freebsd.org. Mr Hosokawa supplies the PAO patches and drivers to make FreeBSD work with laptops. My experience with FreeBSD 2.2.2 and 5, and the PAO patches on a Toshiba CT720 is positive. However the Toshibas are not nearly as good value as Gateway 9000 (the 9000 XL is only 60%, in Australia, of the cost of the comparable 760 Toshiba). If I had the chance again I would buy the Gateway. Thank you, Yours sincerely, S Hopcroft ______________________________ Reply Separator ____________________________ _____ Subject: notebook compatibility with FreeBSD Author: fwang@nortel.ca at INTERNET Date: 12/1/98 6:58 PM Hello, I am looking for a notebook that is compatible with FreeBSD, and am considering following brands : Compaq IBM Toshiba Dell NEC Can anybody provide me some information about the FreeBSD compatibility with these notebooks. Thanks a lot ! Xinyuan Wang fwang@nortel.ca
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