Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 20:10:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Latest laptop recommendations Message-ID: <199912080410.UAA00429@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Dec 1999 18:01:13 PST." <199912080201.SAA11226@mina.sr.hp.com>
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> Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > I have one of these, and yes it's likely to be superseded about then; > > thats Dell's 3-month product cycle for you. Mine was obsolete before it > > was shipped. 8( However, I also love it dearly already, and anticipate > > many years of service out of it. > > Mine wasn't supposed to ship for ~2 months (because of the > 1400x1050 display and 10GB drive), but it arrived in just over a week. *shrug* I ordered before they started shipping (first ship date was Nov 17th), with a ship date of the 23rd. I got a call on the 22nd or so saying it was going to be late - it arrived that day. Sounds like they're not selling as well as Dell had hoped. > > I didn't bother with XFree and pestered the Xig folks instead. They > > It's tempting, but it's hard for me to justify $200 on an X > server. The XFree86 Mach64 server is just sooo close to working. It's hard to make a case for a $200 X server, yes. However I just do the math on what my time is worth to me, and consider that someone else is paying for the software in my case anyway. Plus, having just dropped $4k on a laptop, another $200 isn't such a stretch. 8) > [ I really, really wish purify was available for FreeBSD. It would > probably make it much easier to fix the server. ] There was at least one other Purify-like tool that was open to being ported; the drawback was simply getting enough customers that'd promise to buy it. > > > * Sound doesn't work. The 7500 uses the Maestro 2E, which Brett ... > > I'm not sure about that, but I haven't had time to go around with the OSS > > folks lately. I would hope we can get something resolved there soon. > > Well, I'm using -current as of Dec. 2, +/- ~1 day. I tried the OSS > drivers for -current just this morning, and I only got garbled sound out > of /dev/audio. Sorry; I knew that audio didn't work, but I didn't want to make any judgement about whose fault it was until after I've spoken to OSS. > An indication that the OSS sound drivers may need to be > updated for the latest -current include the syslog message (reformatted > for readability): > > /kernel: WARNING: driver oss should register devices with > make_dev() (dev_t = "#oss/0") That's harmless at the moment. > [ I don't know if this could be causing problems, but the USB ifc, which > I'm *not* using, is using the same IRQ as the sound ifc. > Unfortunately, there seems to be no way (from the BIOS) to either > disable the USB port (not that I'd want to) or change the IRQs used by > the USB or sound devices. ] That's correct, and I'm trying to find someone at Dell to bitch about it to. OSS doesn't know how to share interrupts on FreeBSD at the moment either, making it somewhat worse. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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