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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!nobody From: chuckg@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Chuck G.) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: *BSD on LAPTOP -- requirements/recommendations? Date: 29 Jul 1994 19:53:45 -0500 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <31c8ap$nj8@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <CSHENTON.94Jul29122120@wasabi.nsi.nasa.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com In article <CSHENTON.94Jul29122120@wasabi.nsi.nasa.gov>, Chris Shenton <cshenton@wasabi.nsi.nasa.gov> wrote: >What are the requirements and supported hardware? I assume most >laptops don't have built-in ether ports, so I'd need to support a >PCMCIA ether card. Also a card-modem for PPP/SLIP access. The ability >to snarf video output and pump it into a panel-projector would be a >big win. I have an Acom 8200 (486DX2/66 16M 344Mb Color 512k VL Cirrus). It runs FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 and XFree86 2.1.1 with no complaints. It has simultaneous display capability (and I know you can get panels that accept VGA input for projectors). It has a PCMCIA III (2 PCMCIA II) that I have not filled in yet. There is a catch. The display only supports 640x480 using ConfigXF86 to set it up. 800x600 Xconfig is my weekend project. The FreeBSD and XFree86 development teams have done outstanding work. I recommend the software regardless of the hardware you get. -- chuckg@NeoSoft.com "It's nice to be alive" -- M. Mothersbaugh