From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 22 21:26:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA23735 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA23651; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id WAA28279; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:25:20 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199808230425.WAA28279@lariat.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1.0.49 (Beta) Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:25:00 -0600 To: Craig Johnston , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 560E TFT -> $1200 In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message