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Date:      Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:54:33 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Steve Jorgensen <steve@khoral.com>
To:        gsutter@pobox.com (Gregory Sutter)
Cc:        mike@seidata.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Laptops
Message-ID:  <199808141454.IAA16645@zen.alb.khoral.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980814033123.E8967@notabene.zer0.org> from "Gregory Sutter" at Aug 14, 98 03:31:23 am

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Gregory Sutter wrote
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 03:02:35AM -0400, Mike wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > Just curious about individuals' experiences with FreeBSD's compatibility
>> > with laptops.  I've heard a lot of good things, and have successfully
>> > installed it on an HP 5000 series myself.  I'm wanting to purchase a low-
>> > to mid-range system (doncha just love budgets ;) that will work well with
>> > FreeBSD, and would appreciate any suggestions.
>> 
>> 1.  Don't get an HP laptop.  The mouse devices supposedly don't work at
>> 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?
>> 
>> 2.  Check carefully the video chipset, to see if XFree86 supports it. 
>> You can find out at www.xfree86.org.  
>> 
>> That's all I know... somebody who owns a laptop might be able to better
>> help you.  Good luck!

	We have a couple Micron transport xke's at work that work just
	fine with Freebsd.  Don't know about the new Micron's though.

						Steve

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