Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:50:53 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brian McGroarty <snowfox@yipyap.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, dmitry <dvk@toolbuilders.com> Subject: Re: Buying a new laptop / Baldwin's Nirvana Message-ID: <XFMail.001201185053.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20001201204714.A27724@vixen.yipyap.net>
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On 02-Dec-00 Brian McGroarty wrote: > 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? I think you can use both screens seperately at least in both Windows and wtih AccelX. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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