From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 8 23:31:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA21871 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:31:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA21862 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:31:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id IAA00746; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:30:56 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 08:30:56 +0100 (MET) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Rohit Dube cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list Subject: Re: 3.0 on Laptops In-Reply-To: <199811062315.SAA16822@zubin.dnrc.bell-labs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Having seen several people bite the dust trying run X (on both Linux > and FreeBSD) on laptops I would especially appreciate comments on > from people who have tried this before. http://www.xig.com make laptop drivers, for FreeBSD as well as Linux. They are neat and work for example on the Vaio 505. Two ways of doing this: 1) Buy a supported one andand buy their software. 2) Buy an unsupported one, send them the laptop to make it work and get the software for free. Nick -- ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message