Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:52:27 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question on Dell Latitude laptops Message-ID: <20000508115227.O61921@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <39161984.DAC5F078@S1.com> References: <39161984.DAC5F078@S1.com>
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On Monday, 8 May 2000 at 1:33:56 +0000, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > Hi ya, > > I've just been informed that as of next month I will be getting a > laptop: "Dell Latitude CPx, 450MHx PIII, 128Mb RAM, 6.4GB HDD, 13.3 > screen, FDD, CD-ROM, 10/100 Dell/3Com PC-card NIC, V90 PC-Card modem." > > So, has anyone had success on installing FreeBSD 3.3 on such a > beast? I've done it on a CPi with no problems. But I'd recommend a newer release of FreeBSD now. > Any hints, tips, tricks, gotcha's I need to be aware of? Not really. On the CPi you need the following in your kernel config to get sound to work: device pcm0 at isa? port ? irq 10 drq 1 flags 0x0 The video card on the CPi is a NeoMagic, which is now supported by XFree86. IIRC there was nothing special needed to install it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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