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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with Laptop install
Date: 27 Feb 1996 23:18:03 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4h03fb$and@helena.MT.net>
References: <312E66C4.62A9@apache.com>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
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In article <312E66C4.62A9@apache.com>, Mark Wauchope  <mgw@apache.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>Has anyone successfully installed XFree on a notebook computer with an
>800x600 display and gotten the 800x600 mode working properly?  

Yes.  It works great on my NEC Versa P/75.

>Also, the pccard-test package works for some things, but there is no
>documentation on how to set advanced settings in pccard.conf and how to
>setup the pccards using pccardsetup during bootup.  I will be willing to
>help get some documentation put together for this package if some people
>want to get together with me to help figure out some of these things.

If you want to send me some email, I can try and work with you on it. 
However, I'm not sure what exactly the Nomad folks have done, but I'm
going to have to figure it out soon enough. :)



Nate
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