Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 17:22:09 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop - i got one, but now... Message-ID: <199510052322.RAA03254@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <9510052218.AA11465@merak.med.ge.com> References: <9510052218.AA11465@merak.med.ge.com>
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> Thanks for all the input on laptops last week. Most of the suggestions > were outside my $ range. I did find one though. > > Sharp - 8800 > 486 DX4 - 75Mhz > 8M RAM > 500M HD > 800x600 SVGA Screen (major selling point for me) > Built in GlidePoint mouse pad (I like this style personally) > Built in sound. > > Bottom line -- $2300 -- Wow, that's pretty cheap. However, does XFree86 support your graphic card/monitor combo? > I have a few questions for anyone with the FreeBSD running on a laptop. > > 1) What is the shape of the PCMCIA drivers? Generic? Card specific? Supposedly Poul has stuff in -current that works, but my laptop has been down for the last few weeks with a dead battery and I haven't had time to go get a new one. > 2) The screen saver seems to hang the system. Any clues? ??? > 3) Is there a way to install X from the sysinstall program now > that I have room on the DOS partition for it? The bin dist is already > there. Be very careful. There may not be support for your box with XFree86. > 4) FreeBSD reboots with my Xircom PCMCIA Ether/Modem card in it. I think > it is because the card is memory mapped to 0xd200-d2ff. At least that > is the exclusion statment required by EMM386 in MS-DOS for the card. ??? Nate
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