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Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:25:00 -0600
To: Craig Johnston <caj@lfn.org>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG,
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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 560E TFT -> $1200
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Be careful with the Cyber chips. If you have them in screen expansion
mode (an IBM BIOS option) the XFree86 screen driver will go bonkers
and your screen will just go black.

--Brett

At 10:19 PM 8/22/98 -0500, Craig Johnston wrote:
 
>
>I figured some of you might be interested in this.  The specs are
>i166MMX / 16MB(80 max) / 2.1GB / 12.1 TFT @ 800x600x16 / 4 lbs, 1.2" thick,
>basically full-sized keyboard, trackpoint (the red 'pencil eraser') pointing 
>device, SBPro compat sound, external floppy drive, IrDA port.
>
>The video is Trident Cyber9382, i.e. supported by XFree86.
>
>I wish I'd known microwarehouse (www.microwarehouse.com) had 'em this
>cheap when I bought mine 3 weeks ago -- I paid about $700 more and I
>felt like it was a great buy until I saw this. :/  
>
>This isn't FreeBSD-specific but I wanted FreeBSD folks to get 'em.
>It's really an incredible deal.  (IBM just discontinued it recently.)
>You probably couldn't buy just the screen much cheaper.  It works
>great for FreeBSD.
>
>Enjoy,
>Craig
>
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