From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 13:11:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA18390 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:11:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [35.1.1.42]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA18365 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 13:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ohm.merit.edu (ohm.merit.edu [198.108.60.65]) by merit.edu (8.7.5/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id QAA22044; Thu, 30 May 1996 16:11:38 -0400 (EDT) From: William Bulley Received: (web@localhost) by ohm.merit.edu (8.6.9/8.6.5) id QAA24391; Thu, 30 May 1996 16:21:41 -0400 Message-Id: <199605302021.QAA24391@ohm.merit.edu> Subject: Re: Gateway Solo: Is it known to run FreeBSD? To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 16:21:41 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605291906.NAA18289@lariat.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at May 29, 96 01:06:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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