Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 14:34:41 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, hardware@neutron.neutron.org Subject: Re: max coolness laptop? Message-ID: <199712122034.OAA26041@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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I hope you don't mid that I redirected this to freebsd-mobile as it seems more appropriate and you're likely to get better answers here. > dear bsd people > you have given me good info in the past. > have you heard anyone successfully installing say, 2.2.2 and PAO > on a chembook 9780 ? > thanks > neutron. I've got a Chembook 6800XL with 14.1" display and I am *real* happy with it. I'm running -current on it, but 2.2-stable should work on it. The 9780 looks to have the same chipsets: C&T 65554/65555 (6800XL/9780) TI 1131 PCMCI for the display and PCMCIA. You might have a problem installing from CD-ROM. My ATAPI CD-ROM seems to take a little longer waiting for the command phase, and a one line fix to the kernel source fixed this problem. I think Soren was going to commit this change but it was only found a couple of weeks ago, so it won't be available in any installation disks you have. Oh yeah, support for the TI 1131 chipset was added after FreeBSD-2.5 was released, so you'll have to do without PCMCIA support until you upgrade to -stable. I've really got to thank Nate and the Nomads (sounds like a bad rock-group from the 60's) for notebook suppor. Good work guys! Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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