From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 14 17:43:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25232 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:43:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.seidata.com (ns1.seidata.com [208.10.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA25227 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 17:43:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@seidata.com) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by ns1.seidata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA13050; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:43:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 20:43:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike To: Gregory Sutter cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Laptops In-Reply-To: <19980814033123.E8967@notabene.zer0.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Gregory Sutter wrote: Thanks for the response... > all with FreeBSD, so a plug-in serial mouse must be used. I don't know > if an HP 5000 is a laptop, but if it is, did the mouse work? Yes, I think it was a 5500 (5000 series) laptop. I tried this a month or so ago... the regular install was a pain to get started, but it went smoothly after some initial twiddling. I never installed X on it, so I'm not sure if the mouse functioned or not... I'll avoid HPs now, thanks for the tip. :) > 2. Check carefully the video chipset, to see if XFree86 supports it. > You can find out at www.xfree86.org. *nod* 3.3.2 has added a *lot* of support... Thanks again... -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message