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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 17:22:09 -0600
From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg  x7-4534)
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Subject: Re: Laptop - i got one, but now...
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> Thanks for all the input on laptops last week.  Most of the suggestions
> were outside my $ range.  I did find one though.
> 
> Sharp - 8800
> 486 DX4 - 75Mhz
> 8M RAM
> 500M HD
> 800x600 SVGA Screen  (major selling point for me)
> Built in GlidePoint mouse pad (I like this style personally)
> Built in sound.
> 
> Bottom line -- $2300 --  

Wow, that's pretty cheap.

However, does XFree86 support your graphic card/monitor combo?

> I have a few questions for anyone with the FreeBSD running on a laptop.
> 
> 1) What is the shape of the PCMCIA drivers?  Generic? Card specific?

Supposedly Poul has stuff in -current that works, but my laptop has been
down for the last few weeks with a dead battery and I haven't had time
to go get a new one.

> 2) The screen saver seems to hang the system.  Any clues?

???

> 3) Is there a way to install X from the sysinstall program now
>    that I have room on the DOS partition for it?  The bin dist is already
>    there.

Be very careful.  There may not be support for your box with XFree86.

> 4) FreeBSD reboots with my Xircom PCMCIA Ether/Modem card in it.  I think
>    it is because the card is memory mapped to 0xd200-d2ff.  At least that
>    is the exclusion statment required by EMM386 in MS-DOS for the card.

???


Nate