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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!sas!mozart.unx.sas.com!torpid.unx.sas.com!sastdr From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) Subject: Re: X386 on Notebook Sender: news@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events) Message-ID: <C5LGFI.5tM@unx.sas.com> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1993 20:47:42 GMT References: <Ze5F1B6w165w@gnct.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: torpid.unx.sas.com Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Lines: 32 In article <Ze5F1B6w165w@gnct.com> thomason@gnct.com (thomason) writes: >Hello, > >I have no experience in using Notebook computer. And now I would like to >build a 386bsd Notebook. > >I wonder whether X386 could run on a notebook LCD display. > >Does anyone knows whether notebook LCD VGA is register level compatible >with VGA ? > >Thanks in advance. > >Thomason FAN > >thomason@gnct.com (thomason) >GloCom BBS - (852)4925025 I run X386 (in mono mode) on my Compuadd 386 notebook without too many problems. Be sure to get a 387 for your notebook (assuming it's not a 486) - as X386 was compiled using a version of GCC which emits floating point instructions not emulated in the math emulator. It's not the best system in the world; the display is kinda small, and the machine is kinda slow (25mhz 386sx, 8meg memory) - but it does work. - Dave Rivers - (sastdr@unx.sas.com (work)) (rivers@ponds.uucp (home)) -- UPDATE ALL INFORMATION AND POD INTO COSMOS - Federal Express