Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 16:21:41 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gateway Solo: Is it known to run FreeBSD? Message-ID: <199605302021.QAA24391@ohm.merit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199605291906.NAA18289@lariat.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at May 29, 96 01:06:00 pm
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According to Brett Glass: > > Has anyone successfully run FreeBSD 2.0.1 or later on a Gateway Solo? This > machine has an 800x600 LCD driven by a C&T video chipset, and it won't > be worth running FreeBSD unless there are video drivers for this display. > I'd also be interested in finding out if the other peripherals behaved > properly, and if DOS emulation is stable enough to try on this platform. Yes, I've just installed FreeBSD 2.1R on a Solo 90 -- works like a charm (nice thing about the Solo laptop for UNIX geeks: they have a way to assign the CAPS LOCK key to be a CNTRL key in the CMOS setup program!!!!) but the ESC key location sucks... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley, N8NXN Senior Systems Research Programmer Merit Network Inc. Domain: web@merit.edu 4251 Plymouth Road MaBell: (313) 764-9993 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105-2785 Fax: (313) 747-3185
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