Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 01:11:23 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: notebook: which one Message-ID: <199612131411.BAA05221@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199612131252.NAA04767@gvr.win.tue.nl> from Guido van Rooij at "Dec 13, 96 01:52:53 pm"
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Guido van Rooij writes: > I am looking for a notebook that is well supported under FreeBSD. It > should have 16 mb and a decent screen and have either a 0.5 or 1.0 > gigabyte fixed disk. I am particularly interested in which brand is the > best to choose. I'm writing this from my ThinkPad 560 running -current. Works really well even without a L2 cache .. and at less than 2kg it's no great problem to cart around. Nearly 3hrs battery life (Lithium) in normal, text-mode, non disk-intensive use. Only one sticking point .. X on the DSTN model is (still) not working at better than 640x480 where others have managed to get it to fly at 800x600 on the TFT (active) models. I've used a 3C589b (with a small tweak to the ep driver) and a D-Link DE-650 (no tweaking required) with it. In contrast, I had all sorts of bother trying to get an AST J-10 to run at all with -current back in June .. I gave it back after a week of arguing with the PCIC stuff over some non-standard port problem (it didn't appear to use 0x3e0 :-(), michael
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