From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 23 7:45:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB55137B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (mail19a.dulles19-verio.com [161.58.134.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1328D43E31 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:45:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rob@pythonemproject.com) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 0152645222; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:43:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D3D6B65.D079F5F0@pythonemproject.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 07:42:45 -0700 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Kukulies , "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: X11, Nvidia, Geforce 2 Go, Dell Inspiron 8000 References: <200207212045.WAA20360@accms33.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <1027308794.319.13.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020722081607.B22472@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <3D3C612F.63174259@pythonemproject.com> <20020723081238.A29398@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:46:55PM -0700, rob wrote: > > > > I was looking at the latest Dells. Isn't the 8000 the one that has up to > > 2Ghz mobile P4 + DDR memory? I'm wondering if this is a good choice for > > FreeBSD? Thanks, Rob. > > Dell Inspiron 8000 was soon outdated by 8100 and now by 8200. > You can have the 8200 with P4 up to 2.0 GHz at present. > http://www.dell.com/us/en/dhs/products/model_inspn_1_inspn_8200.htm > > But the point is 3D acceleration in my case. Having the large 1600x1200 > screen is nice per se for progam development and having many > different windows etc etc. But for developing OpenGL graphics applications > it would be nice to take full advantage of the GeForce2 or GeForce4 > chip. > > And this is a major drawback at present with FreeBSD and the driver > project doesn't get right on, does it? > > -- > Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies@rwth-aachen.de Hi Chris, I was thinking of dumping my Sony Viao FX290 for one. So yes, its the 8200. What type of a console do you get on that machine? On the Viao with I815 so-called graphics chip :) I get the tiny console on my screen without VESA support in the kernel. I'd love to have a laptop again with a full screen console. Thanks, Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message