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Subject: 	Re: Xorg problems
Date: 	Sat, 07 Mar 2015 13:23:40 -0500
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To: 	Waitman Gobble <gobble.wa@gmail.com>



On 03/07/15 13:04, Waitman Gobble wrote:

[putolin]


> The 1501 is a $50 laptop from 2006? i dont know that nvidia is the
> right driver, I think it has ATI before AMD bought it. This would have
> been around the time FreeBSD 7.0 was HEAD i think?
>
> curious??? If this is the same 1501 that featured the first Dell
> computer to use AMD chip then probably best to evaluate throwing it in
> the dumpster. :)
>
>
This laptop has worked well since I bought it new a long time ago in a
galaxy far far away.

Why would I bin a perfectly good laptop?

And yes it uses an ATI radeon