From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Oct 27 6:28:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.46.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F2237B403 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 06:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f9RDSfE88690; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:28:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 15:28:41 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Lukas Ertl Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Inspiron 4100/8100? Message-ID: <20011027152841.B88633@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20011026233319.R477-100000@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20011026233319.R477-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from l.ertl@univie.ac.at on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:46:07PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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