From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 7: 0:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6C237B419 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 12347) id D45DFEABB42; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:01:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1DBA6A86A9 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:01:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:01:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony vs Compaq In-Reply-To: <002301c1e427$90bf2cf0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > Subject: Re: Sony vs Compaq > > > A little off-topic from general FreeBSD help... but somewhat related > > to hardware compatability w/ FreeBSD... etc: > > > > My IBM StinkPad (aka the Thinkpad A20M (PIII 500)) will not at all > > even remotely run FreeBSD, (or Oracle, or much of anything else!); > > What exact problems are you encountering? 've got inside contacts at IBM, > and some would like to see FreeBSD better supported on IBM hardware. > > -- > Matt Emmerton > Also, there's an A20 in the office right next to mine running OpenBSD, Linux, QNX and Solaris - the hard parts for the Linux and BSD installs were the sound (which now works fine) and the modem (which doesnt work and never will because the user has no use for it). All the opsys's installed just fine - exactly what problem are you having? If they are out-of-the box GUI problems at startup, well, thats the way it is with laptops. |-John Bleichert----syborg@stny.rr.com----------------| |-------------------http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg--| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message