Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:28:41 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inspiron 4100/8100? Message-ID: <20011027152841.B88633@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <20011026233319.R477-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from l.ertl@univie.ac.at on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:46:07PM %2B0200 References: <20011026233319.R477-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:46:07PM +0200, Lukas Ertl wrote: > Hi, > > Dell Austria has currently some nice offers for Inspiron 4100 and 8100 > notebooks, and I'm really thinking about buying one. > > My question is: do they work with FreeBSD, and if yes, how do they > perform? Are the integrated peripherals (IrDA, LAN,...) supported? And > what about X? (The 4100 has a ATI Mobility Radeon built in, the 8100 a > nVidia GeForce2 Go; I didn't find a lot about these chips on the XFree > homepage.) As for the GeForce2 GO I must say No no and no. I have FreeBSD running on the Inspiron 8000 (which is just 100MHz less than the 8100) but there is presently no chance to get an X11 screen for FreeBSD. And I doubt there will be a chance ever due to the closed architecture of the NVIDIA chip. ALl they offer is Linux drivers and they released another driver for Linux in September (Release 1541). I don't want to praise or advertise for Linux here but I have Redhat 7.1, FreeBSD (No X11) Windows ME, Windows 2000 running on the Inspiron 8000 (all bootable through the Redhat graphics screen bootloader - ick, my son recently said when he saw this: Dad, what is this, are you gone mad to have this Redhat screen on your notebook :-). But I was in need to run OpenGL applications under a unix-look-similar. > > regards, > le > > -- > Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at > WWW-Redaktion Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 > Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 > der Universität Wien > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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