From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 20:26:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA18604 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:26:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA18599 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:26:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA27618; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:25:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:25:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jerry Dunham cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bercikj@musc.edu Subject: Re: Will it work on a Dell latitude XPI-CD? In-Reply-To: <199701300417.WAA21257@freeside.fc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, Jerry Dunham wrote: > > > Will freebsd run on my Dell latitude XPI-CD laptop? Is there a xfree type > > > program that will also run? Thanks for your time. I'm having a heck of a > > > time getting linux on the $5500 laptop. > > > > We've had very good luck getting FreeBSD up on a Dell LX. Not Xwindows, > > just FreeBSD. > > I also have a Dell LX running FreeBSD, due to MUCH help from Greg Lehey. > My intent is to attack getting X windows running on it this coming week- > end or the next. If there's interest, I can report on any success here. > Even if there's no interest, I may be bringing any lack of success here. I think it should work nicely with the 3.2 SVGA driver -- it uses Chips & Tech parts which are very well supported, as opposed to Western Digital and (newer) Cirrus Logic bits. > I've got an XPi also here that would be interesting to attempt FreeBSD on, > but I unfortunately need to keep Win95 on the fool thing to get my e-mail > from the Dell network. Win95 only crashed on me twice today, so I sup- > pose it was a good day. It's crash-of-the-day with my (very crappy, never buy one) CTX laptop and OS/2. And it's not warp's fault -- it'll do it under windoze 3.1 too! > I am interested in hearing of any other success or lack thereof with Dell > notebooks and FreeBSD. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major