Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:26:30 -0500 (CDT) From: John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com> To: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 3500 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904291125370.3591-100000@adam.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <199904291513.LAA76826@fnur.3skel.com>
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Does your touch pad work. I have a Latitude and it works pretty well however I can't get the touch pad to work. Any thoughts JOHN > I have a new machine, a Dell Inspiron 3500. PAO under 3.1-REL > works, almost perfectly. > > ----------------- FYI ---------------------------------- > For those considering this machine > > Only the left bay can take the CDROM or Floppy. > As soon as I realized this I was worried, but > then I found this odd cable in the box: it allows one to > hook up the floppy to the parallel port so that you > can have both the CD and floppy connected. It is a > hardware level thing, so I could boot off the floppy > and use it under FreeBSD! > > Both bays can take batteries. I have the DVD-ROM which > works as a CDROM without a problem under FreeBSD. > I added the pnp and pcm drivers and the audio works > as well. > > The NeoMagic video controller works PERFECTLY under Xfree86 > 3.3.3.1, 1024x768, 24bit color. > > 256MB of RAM is seen without a problem. > > Don't bother buying the internal modem: it is a winmodem. > It creates problems for PCCards, because it screws up > IRQ 3 so that you have to add 'ignirq 3' to the > /etc/pccard.conf file. > > The problem was that when I put my 3c589c ethernet card > in, it gets put on IRQ 3 because sio1 fails the kernel > boot scan. But the WinModem is there so when the IRQ > gets pulled, it gets screwed up. I see the packets go > out, but when they come back it takes 2-3 seconds for > them to come up. > > Damn nice, that PAO. Nice notebook. > > Dan > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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