From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed May 3 10:33:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rock.ghis.net (rock.ghis.net [209.222.164.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37A9937BCA4 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 10:33:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from argon.blackdawn.com (deepspace9.dcds.edu [207.231.151.2]) by rock.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA66660; Wed, 3 May 2000 10:33:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by argon.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D8CAB19EC; Tue, 2 May 2000 12:21:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:21:06 -0400 From: Will Andrews To: Nick Barnes Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new notebook Message-ID: <20000502122106.B396@argon.blackdawn.com> References: <15557.957275750@raven.ravenbrook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <15557.957275750@raven.ravenbrook.com>; from Nick.Barnes@pobox.com on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:55:50PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 02:55:50PM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote: > I'm buying a new notebook to run FreeBSD. Probably somewhere in the > $2000-$3500 range. It has to be dockable and I would like it to be > fairly lightweight. I don't need a zillion peripherals. I want to > avoid spending ages configuring Xfree86. > > Recommendations? Dell Inspiron 7000 has been no trouble for me (as evidenced by the fact I'm using it to type this email under FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT), but that model's been obsoleted by newer versions these days. Your main concern will be which video card and networking card you get. My 3Com 3CCFE574BT works under -CURRENT and should also work under 4.0. My I7K has an 8MB ATI AGP Mach64-based Rage LT Pro, which works with XFree86 3.3.6 using the Mach64 driver. I didn't really try, but I don't think this card is supported in accelerated mode under XFree86 4.0. -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message