Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:10:46 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@plutotech.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 770 Message-ID: <19990105121046.F10410@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199901050047.RAA23841@pluto.plutotech.com>; from Justin T. Gibbs on Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:39:10PM -0700 References: <19990105112933.A10547@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199901050047.RAA23841@pluto.plutotech.com>
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On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 05:39:10PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >>On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 04:48:30PM -0700, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: >>>I'm considering purchasing one of these guys and I'm hoping that someone >>>out there can confirm getting FreeBSD up and running on it. It looks like >>>XFree86 supports the Trident video chipset it uses and I would expect >> >>I'm not sure that it does. Which chip is it? There is preliminary >>(untested) support for a new Trident laptop chipset about to go into >>our development version, and I've seen at least one report that the >>Thinkpad 770X uses that one. >> >>David > >The specs I have say it uses the Trident Cyber9397DVD chipset. A report I saw today indicates that the chip has a different PCI ID from the earlier (non-DVD?) Cyber9397. It may be otherwise compatible, but I haven't seen that confirmed. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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