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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com (Ted Mittelstaedt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Suitable LapTop for FreeBSD
Date: 6 Mar 1997 05:22:00 GMT
Organization: Cool Dudes Inc.
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In article <5f3q8l$r11@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) says:
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>> Also, which chipset does X use on it?
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>Chips & tech 65545 (compliments of SuperProbe).
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Just a warning, before running SuperProbe, (or X -probeonly, for that
matter) make sure you can telnet into your machine and execute the 
reboot command.  I've probed unknown cards with these and so
throughly screwed them up that even the character-mode display
is toasted.  One machine was so bad that running probes on it would
completely lock it up.  I eventually got a reasonable
clocks line for the config file by telnetting into it and running
probeonly from a telnet screen, the machine locked up but emitted
a clocks line which I copied down to a piece of paper.  (and disabled
the clock entries that made it upchuck, obviously)