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From: nate@trout.mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: laptop external displays (and general recommendations)
Date: 16 Jul 1996 16:21:17 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4sgfht$j1j@helena.MT.net>
References: <to3f2s6dzz.fsf@avalon.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com

In article <to3f2s6dzz.fsf@avalon.harvard.edu>,
Erik Evensen <erik@avalon.harvard.edu> wrote:
>I'm thinking of getting a laptop on which I will run FreeBSD. One
>thing I'm wondering about is how external displays are handled: do
>they have to be mirrors of the built-in screen or does X allow them
>to be additional screens?

Since they use the exact same video card, they are either mirrors of the
built-in screen or if you turn the built-in screen off many of them
allow you to drive external monitors at higher resolutions.

>What is currently considered to be a usable minimum system
>(processor/mem/HD) for FreeBSD on a laptop? I'm hoping to use the
>system for writing using TeX (dare I attempt to use Emacs?) and doing
>some development when I'm away from my desk.

486/33 with 12M and a 200M disk would be the bare minimum.  Anything
more makes it really nice.  Me, I've got a P75 with 24MB and a 810MB disk
and I've got 4 OS's on it. :)


Nate
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