Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 21:41:15 -0700 From: "Mark C. Langston" <mark@bitshift.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sharp Actius PC-A800? Message-ID: <20000530214115.K12707@bitshift.org> In-Reply-To: <14644.36559.428319.251221@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:13:25AM -0400 References: <14644.36559.428319.251221@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:13:25AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > I'm looking into low-budget "ultra portables" for use with FreeBSD and > the Sharp Actius PC-A800 is rising to the top of the list. Is anybody > out there using an A800 with FreeBSD? Any quirks to be aware of? Does > sound work? I'm using one. Have been for a week now. 4.0-STABLE and -RELEASE: Couldn't get sound working. 5.0-CURRENT: Works like a charm, though I do seem to have to change the volume before it wants to work. Quirks: The FN-Fkey combo for volume control won't work. Seems to be software-based. There's no BIOS option for disabling suspend when the lid's closed, that I can find. And the left Fn key is in an incredibly annoying location...I ended up remapping the caps lock to CTRL in both X and console. > > If anybody has an A800, can you tell me what sort of memory it takes? > Sharp's own site is the only place I've found selling memory for it -- > at the outrageous price of $379 for 128MB of memory. From the > picture, I'd guess that it is a PC100 144-pin SODIMM, but I'd like to > be certain... No idea. I just sucked it up and dropped the $200 for the 64MB upgrade, for 128MB total. As a further data point, I'm using the notebook without PAO code, and am successfully using a Lucent WaveLAN Gold 11Mbps Turbo PCMCIA card (nee 'orinoco'). Had to modify the suspend and resume scripts to kill and restart dhclient, and add a local startup script that changes the card mode from ad-hoc (default) to base-station use. -- Mark C. Langston mark@bitshift.org Systems & Network Admin San Jose, CA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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