From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 1 18:47:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from vixen.yipyap.net (dsl-64-193-169-237.telocity.com [64.193.169.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B304337B400; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowfox by vixen.yipyap.net with local (Exim 3.16 #1 (Debian)) id 1422hm-00084j-00; Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:47:14 -0600 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 20:47:14 -0600 To: John Baldwin Cc: dmitry , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Buying a new laptop / Baldwin's Nirvana Message-ID: <20001201204714.A27724@vixen.yipyap.net> References: <200011302135.eAULZUK17960@mail.ipeg.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:32:30PM -0800 From: Brian McGroarty Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 03:32:30PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 30-Nov-00 dmitry wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am about to purchase a new laptop with a following specs: > > I have a Dell Inspiron 5000e with the 1600x1200 display. cardbus works in > current with a hack, pccard works fine, sound works fine, apm doesn't work. (I > may get around to fixing that someday though.) acpi currently doesn't work on > it either. X works in 1600x1200, but it takes some work. I haven't tried the > 3.3.6 X bits that come with 4.2, which may work fine. However, X 4.0.1 has a > bug and doesn't work out of the box. I had to use cvsup to grab the X sources > out of the tree and use that to compile an X server. AccelX's server will work > fine on the 5000e though, and even supports using an external monitor as a > dual-head, etc. I like it fine, though I mainly wanted it for the screen. :) The laptop supports dual head with the external port? This laptop uses the ATI RAGE Mobility. Do you have a feeling for whether both heads are accelerated under X? I do many graphics presentations. I'd kill to have GL on a preview screen and presentation screen and still be able to take it with me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message