From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jan 9 12:21:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA19579 for mobile-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:21:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA19571 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA15778; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:21:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:21:12 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney To: Nate Williams cc: William Robertson , Joe Kelly , mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Laptop Question. In-Reply-To: <199701091914.MAA07573@rocky.mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > William Robertson writes: > > > > I've heard good things about the Hi-Note, but I don't think I'll get to > > install FreeBSD on my boss's 560. However, if it runs the 560 would be > > a *really* nice box. It's pretty sweet. > > > > it installs and runs on the 560. xfree86 3.2 runs with a bit o > > tweeking, but only does 8-bit colour (please contact me if you can do > > better :-). > > Can the 560 do 800x600? Also, I don't know of any X servers that can > go better than 8-bit with the LCD screens, even though under Windows 3.1 > I can do 16-bit color on my older 755CX. Bryan Tarr is running 16bit at 800x600 w/ XFree86... it required the a beta of XFree86 (this was before 3.2 was released)... but it runs quite nicely.... it's more of a problem with the display chip not being supported by the server... so make sure you research it... John-Mark gurney_j@efn.org http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix)