From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Aug 22 8:58:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from martens.math.ntnu.no (martens.math.ntnu.no [129.241.15.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD6C615546 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 08:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hanche@math.ntnu.no) Received: (qmail 9849 invoked from network); 22 Aug 1999 15:57:44 -0000 Received: from localhost (13799@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Aug 1999 15:57:44 -0000 To: grog@lemis.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:44:34 +0930" <19990817154434.I7187@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990817154434.I7187@freebie.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.92.4 on Emacs 19.34 X-URL: http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <19990822175744J.hanche@math.ntnu.no> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 17:57:44 +0200 From: Harald Hanche-Olsen X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 46 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org + Greg Lehey : | On Tuesday, 17 August 1999 at 4:14:56 +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: | > I am thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 3500 (or maybe a 7000) to run | > FreeBSD on. Does anybody know any reason why I should have any | > trouble with this? | | No, they're pretty good laptops. Okay, and thanks to you and the others who responded. | > Please reply directly to me; I'll summarize to the list. | > (Beware the Reply-To field if you wish to reply to the list anyway.) | | It's standard policy to reply to both. Um, I wasn't aware of that. Personally, I tend to get annoyed with this practice, as I don't really care to get the same message twice. But if this is standard practice on the freebsd lists I'll try to stick to it. Anyway, I received one helpful message that was not sent to the list as well, so I'll stick by my promise and duplicate it here: + "Sean O'Connell" : | I set up FreeBSD-3.2 (no PAO) on an Inspiron 3500 for our director. | It went pretty well. XFree86 (NeoMagic NM2200) works nicely. Audio | is pretty good (not great) with pcm and a few mixer adjustment to get | some volume out. | | The internal modem is a winmodem and is useless under FreeBSD, get | one of the pccard ones instead. | | The notebook is kind of on the heavy side (but I am a fan of | ultralights) but not overly heavy (between 5.8 - 6.4 lbs, I believe). | The screen seemed nice. You can run the floppy and cdrom simultaneously | (floppy on a special parallel port cable and cdrom in the bay). | | Suspend and resume worked ok. I could scrounge up a kernel config. | If I recall, the price has dropped pretty far on these guys. | | Hope this helps, It sure did. Thanks again! - Harald To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message