From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 12 17:43:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA05852 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:43:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from pericles.aipo.gov.au (pericles.aipo.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA05804 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:43:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au) From: Stanley.Hopcroft@aipo.gov.au Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.aipo.gov.au (8.8.5/8.6.12) id MAA23330 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:39:27 +1100 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.aipo.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from notes.aipo.gov.au(192.3.1.11) by pericles.aipo.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xmaa23320; Tue, 13 Jan 98 12:38:59 +1100 Received: by notes.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.05b4 (287.3 12-16-1996)) id 4A25658B.000E52D8 ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 12:36:27 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: INTERNET To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4A25658B.000E5010.00@notes.aipo.gov.au> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 10:42:30 +1000 Subject: Re: notebook compatibility with FreeBSD Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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