Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 12:20:28 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.mt.sri.com> Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hi-laptops Message-ID: <199711211920.MAA14961@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199711211916.MAA14952@mt.sri.com> References: <199711211631.JAA04433@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> <199711211916.MAA14952@mt.sri.com>
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>> I am shopping for a laptop and am considering the ibm 560x. It seems to use >> a different graphics chipset than the earlier 560s. Has anyone tried to run >> freebsd and X11 on this model? > > If the 560X is the new CardBus machine, then it's not supported in > FreeBSD. Newer CardBus/PCI machines are not supported 'out of the box' > yet. The same goes for new 760's if they are also CardBus. ps. This is starting to really annoy me, since the PCCARD support in FreeBSD is just starting to get stable, and now they go off and change the hardware on me so it only works on old hardware. :( Nate
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