From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Dec 1 18:50:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2AE537B400 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:50:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp246.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.246]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eB22oOC22989; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 18:50:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001201204714.A27724@vixen.yipyap.net> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 18:50:53 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Brian McGroarty Subject: Re: Buying a new laptop / Baldwin's Nirvana Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org, dmitry Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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